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 Jun 15, NJ has 235 reported deaths in 2025, and is on pace for 607. More state-wide data.
2021 and 2022 were the worst years in the NJSP record (since 2008), with 697 and 689 deaths, resp.
Recent fatal crashes
Date/Time | County | Municipality | Casualties | Location | |
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Fri Jun 13 3:53PM | Hudson | Jersey City | Jersey ave and 6th street | ||
Fri Jun 13 6:47AM | Mercer | Lawrence | 546 | ||
Thu Jun 12 4:25AM | Essex | Irvington | Garden State Parkway MP 145.7 | ||
Wed Jun 11 4:31PM | Burlington | Chesterfield | County 528 | ||
Wed Jun 11 11:32AM | Passaic | Hawthorne | County 667 | ||
Tue Jun 10 4:52PM | Burlington | Mount Laurel | Diston Ct | ||
Tue Jun 10 7:15AM | Bergen | Mahwah | Interstate 287 MP 65.4 | ||
Mon Jun 9 11:18PM | Cumberland | Maurice River | State Highway 47 MP 31.8 | ||
Sun Jun 8 9:18AM | Morris | Parsippany-Troy Hills | Interstate 80 | ||
Sun Jun 8 7:00AM | Cape May | Middle | State Highway 47 MP 15.1 | ||
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 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.