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 Jul 18, NJ has 288 reported deaths in 2025, and is on pace for 632. 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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Thu Jul 17 7:45AM | Passaic | Paterson | Madison Ave/8th Ave | ||
Tue Jul 15 12:12PM | Hunterdon | Alexandria | County 519 | ||
Tue Jul 15 7:32AM | Essex | East Orange | N. Grove St | ||
Sun Jul 13 3:37AM | Bergen | Edgewater | River Rd | ||
Fri Jul 11 11:46PM | Essex | Newark | State Highway 27 | ||
Fri Jul 11 11:19PM | Warren | White | County 519 | ||
Thu Jul 10 9:26PM | Middlesex | South Brunswick | State Highway 27 | ||
Thu Jul 10 1:13PM | Salem | Pittsgrove | State Highway 40 | ||
Tue Jul 8 5:38PM | Mercer | Hamilton | State Highway 33 MP 2.53 | ||
Mon Jul 7 11:53AM | Gloucester | Logan | Interstate 295 MP 13.4 | ||
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.