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 2001-2021. 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 26, NJ has 347 reported deaths in 2024, and is on pace for 686, exceeding 2023's 607. 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

Date/Time	County	Municipality	Location
Mon Jul 22 9:07AM	Passaic	Clifton	State Highway 3 MP .5
Sun Jul 21 2:49PM	Ocean	Toms River	State Highway 166
Sat Jul 20 9:37PM	Monmouth	Tinton Falls	Garden State Parkway MP 103
Sat Jul 20 7:45PM	Ocean	Stafford	State Highway 72 MP 24.5
Wed Jul 17 6:30PM	Hudson	Jersey City	Communipaw Ave
Wed Jul 17 1:46PM	Somerset	Bernards	Interstate 287 MP 29.6
Tue Jul 16 7:52PM	Union	Clark	Madison Hill Rd
Tue Jul 16 2:44PM	Passaic	Clifton	Getty Ave
Tue Jul 16 2:28PM	Burlington	Moorestown	County 614
Tue Jul 16 2:28PM	Middlesex	Piscataway	Interstate 287 MP 8.8
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NJ Traffic Deaths per Year

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

Traffic crashes kill 1.5-2x as many people as homicides in NJ.

Homicide data comes from NJ State Police and Disaster Center.

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).

The data currently ends in 2021, after a drop in all types of crashes due to COVID, and mid-way through a spike in fatal crashes in 2021-2022 (based on the NJSP data above). 2022 data should land in early 2024.