Prospect Avenue crashes in Hackensack
Prospect Avenue had 11 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone from January 1, 2019 to September 30, 2026, the second most of any Hackensack road, NJDOT's public records show as of November 3, 2026. None of them killed anyone. 4 involved someone on foot.
- 0
- killed someone
- 11
- seriously hurt someone
- 434
- crashes of every kind
2.4 crashes that hurt someone per million miles driven, 2020 to 2025, 3rd highest of 8 Hackensack roads with traffic counts. About 7,400 cars a day in 2025. Every road, per mile driven
18% involved a motorcycle (2 of 11). Citywide, it was 9%.
See it on the crash map
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Where on Prospect Avenue
The most crashes of every kind were where it meets Central Avenue, Thompson Street and American Legion Drive. Crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone were most often where it meets Beech Street: 2.
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Gray bars count every crash on Prospect Avenue with a map location, from its south end to its north end. Dots are the 10 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
- Prospect Avenue at Beech Street2
- Prospect Avenue at American Legion Drive1
- Prospect Avenue at Central Avenue1
- Prospect Avenue at Essex Street1
- Prospect Avenue at Golf Place1
Motorcycle crashes are more common on Prospect Avenue
2 of the 11 crashes involved a motorcycle. That is 18%, against 9% 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.
Prospect Avenue, year by year
The worst year was 2023, with 4. 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- Essex Street, rank 1, 3 killed someone19
- 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 Prospect Avenue 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 11 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 south end to the north 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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