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 Apr 27, NJ has 156 reported deaths in 2025, and is on pace for 652. 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 Apr 26 1:45PM	Monmouth	Manalapan	50 COMTOIS RD
Wed Apr 23 7:41PM	Salem	Pittsgrove	County 639
Tue Apr 22 1:07PM	Middlesex	North Brunswick	State Highway 171
Sun Apr 20 1:04PM	Essex	Newark	Irvine Turner Blvd
Sat Apr 19 4:06PM	Camden	Collingswood	Browning Rd
Sat Apr 19 3:48PM	Gloucester	Glassboro	State Highway 47
Sat Apr 19 3:22PM	Ocean	Manchester	State Highway 37
Sat Apr 19 3:48AM	Middlesex	Woodbridge	New Jersey Turnpike MP 94.6
Thu Apr 17 11:56PM	Gloucester	Monroe	County 689 MP 5
Thu Apr 17 4:18PM	Cumberland	Upper Deerfield	State Highway 77 MP 7.5
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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.