NJ Traffic Crash Data

The first 6 plots below come from NJ State Police fatal crash data (2008-present). It's generally current to the previous day.

Below that are plots of NJ DOT raw crash data, which includes 6MM property-damage, injury, and fatal crashes from 2001-2022. It's a richer dataset, but less up to date.

Work in progress map of NJDOT data: 5 years (2017-2021) of fatal and injury crashes in Hudson County:

Full screen map here
Code and cleaned data are here on GitHub.

Car Crash Deaths:

Click/Double-click the legend labels to toggle or solo each type.

As of Mar 8, NJ has 77 reported deaths in 2026, and is on pace for 566. More state-wide data.

2021 and 2022 were the worst years in the NJSP record (since 2008), with 697 and 689 deaths, resp.

Source: NJ State Police

Recent fatal crashes

Date/Time	County	Municipality	Location
Sat Mar 7 11:07PM	Ocean	Toms River	rt 9
Thu Mar 5 5:20PM	Monmouth	Wall	State Highway 70
Thu Mar 5 1:57AM	Monmouth	Neptune	State Highway 35
Wed Mar 4 8:36PM	Gloucester	Monroe	State Highway 322 MP 25.63
Mon Mar 2 2:44PM	Middlesex	Edison	County 501
Sun Mar 1 9:52PM	Gloucester	Clayton	County 655
Sun Mar 1 6:25AM	Middlesex	Woodbridge	County 611
Sat Feb 28 12:53AM	Mercer	Ewing	Wilburtha Rd
Sat Feb 28 12:37AM	Atlantic	Hamilton	State Highway 40
Wed Feb 25 3:26PM	Ocean	Manchester	State Highway 70
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Source: NJ State Police

NJ Traffic Deaths – YTD

Source: NJ State Police

Some data arrives weeks or months after the fact, so current year numbers are especially subject to change.

NJ Traffic Deaths vs. Homicides

Car crashes kill twice as many people as homicides, in NJ.

In 2022, crashes killed 2.4x as many people, the largest disparity on record.

Homicide data comes from NJ State Police and Disaster Center.

NJ Traffic Deaths per Month

NJ Traffic Deaths, grouped by month

NJ DOT Raw Crash Data

NJ DOT publishes raw crash data, including property-damage, injury, and fatal crashes, going back to 2001 (≈6MM records).

Data is currently public through 2022, showing all crash types rebounding from COVID lows, and a particular spike in fatalities. 2023 data is expected in Fall 2025.