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 Dec 14, NJ has 666 reported deaths in 2024, and is on pace for 710, exceeding 2023's 606. 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
Thu Dec 12 1:22PM	Sussex	Montague	County 653 MP 1.9
Thu Dec 12 7:55AM	Atlantic	Atlantic City	Atlantic City Expressway MP 1.4
Thu Dec 12 12:44AM	Essex	Newark	Broad St
Wed Dec 11 6:46PM	Union	Plainfield	State Highway 28
Wed Dec 11 1:20PM	Camden	Winslow	County 723
Tue Dec 10 7:17PM	Monmouth	Neptune	State Highway 66 MP 1
Mon Dec 9 10:27PM	Monmouth	Freehold Twp	County 23 MP 2
Mon Dec 9 10:10AM	Salem	Pilesgrove	County 605 MP .97
Sun Dec 8 7:49PM	Monmouth	Hazlet	State Highway 36
Sun Dec 8 7:27AM	Cumberland	Fairfield	County 692 MP 1.04
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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.