Essex Street crashes in Hackensack
Essex Street had 19 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone from January 1, 2019 to September 30, 2026, the most of any Hackensack road, NJDOT's public records show as of November 3, 2026. 3 of them killed someone. 7 involved someone on foot.
- 3
- killed someone
- 16
- seriously hurt someone
- 852
- crashes of every kind
2.2 crashes that hurt someone per million miles driven, 2020 to 2025, 4th highest of 8 Hackensack roads with traffic counts. About 23,600 cars a day in 2025. Every road, per mile driven
37% involved someone on foot (7 of 19). Citywide, it was 31%.
See it on the crash map
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Where on Essex Street
The most crashes of every kind were where it meets South Prospect Avenue, South Summit Avenue and Newman Street. Crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone were most often where it meets South State Street: 5.
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Gray bars count every crash on Essex Street with a map location, from its west end to its east end. Dots are the 18 that killed or seriously hurt someone. Bigger dots killed someone. Cross streets are the ones police wrote most often, placed at the middle of their crashes.
Cross streets with the most crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone
- Essex Street at South State Street5
- Essex Street at South Summit Avenue3
- Essex Street at 1st Street2
- Essex Street at Newman Street2
- Essex Street at Railroad Avenue2
People on foot are hurt more often on Essex Street
7 of the 19 crashes involved someone on foot. That is 37%, against 31% for the whole city.
Crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone, January 2019 to September 2026. Each crash counts once: someone on foot, then on a bike, then a motorcycle.
Essex Street, year by year
The worst year was 2022, with 6. Counts jump around from year to year, so read single years with care.
* 2026 runs through September 2026. NJDOT calls these records preliminary.
Other dangerous roads in Hackensack
Ranked by crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone, January 2019 to September 2026.
All Hackensack crash data- Prospect Avenue, rank 2, no one killed11
- Interstate 80, rank 3, 2 killed someone9
- Route 4, rank 4, no one killed8
- Polifly Road, tied for rank 5, 3 killed someone7
- River Street, tied for rank 5, no one killed7
- Summit Avenue, rank 7, no one killed6
- East Passaic Street, tied for rank 8, 1 killed someone5
- Atlantic Street, tied for rank 8, no one killed5
- South River Street, tied for rank 8, no one killed5
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How we counted
- Every crash NJDOT's public crash dashboard lists for Hackensack from January 1, 2019 to September 30, 2026, saved November 3, 2026. NJDOT calls these records preliminary. New crashes can take weeks to appear, and older ones can change.
- Killed or seriously hurt means the worst injury in the crash was a death or a suspected serious injury, the top two of the five levels police use. We count crashes, not people.
- A crash counts toward Essex Street when the police report puts it there. Spellings of one road count as one, and the far side of a divided road counts as the same road.
- Cross streets are the ones police wrote on the reports. Places on the chart and the map are where NJDOT put each crash, or, where NJDOT gives no point, where the two streets on the report meet. 1 of the 19 crashes have no usable location; they still count in every total.
- The chart runs along the line that best fits the crash points, from the west end to the east end. On a road that bends, places along it are close, not exact.
- Counts are not adjusted for traffic or road length. A long, busy road will have more crashes. The rate per mile driven is (next note).
- Per mile driven divides the road's crashes that hurt someone, 2020 to 2025, by the miles driven on it: FHWA's traffic counts (the average cars a day New Jersey reports for each stretch), times the stretch's length, times the days, year by year. Only crashes beside a counted stretch count. A road gets a rate with a count on 80% of its length, 80% of its crashes beside a count, at least 20 crashes, and federal and state counts within a quarter of each other where both exist. Traffic counts are estimates, so a rate is too.
- Crash numbers never change a law firm's score.
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