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Observer Highway crashes in Hoboken

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Observer Highway had 46 crashes that hurt someone from January 1, 2019 to September 30, 2026, the fourth most of any Hoboken road, NJDOT's public records show as of October 12, 2026. 2 of them seriously hurt someone. 8 involved someone on foot.

Rank 4 of 41 Hoboken roads
46crashes hurt someone, January 2019 to September 2026.
0
killed someone
2
seriously hurt someone
176
crashes of every kind

7% involved a motorcycle (3 of 46). Citywide, it was 1%.

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Observer Highway in white. Red dots are its crashes that hurt someone (42 of 46 have a usable location). Gray dots are the city's other ones. Street map: US Census Bureau. City outline: City of Hoboken.

Where on Observer Highway

The most crashes of every kind were where it meets Madison Street, Washington Street and Willow Avenue. Crashes that hurt someone were most often where it meets Madison Street: 8.

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All 159 crashes on the mapFebruary 20, 2024, at Harrison Street. A minor injury.March 11, 2021, at Harrison St. A possible injury.February 16, 2022, at Jackson St. A minor injury.July 5, 2024, at Jackson St. A possible injury.June 22, 2023, at Jackson Street. A minor injury.April 28, 2025, at Jackson Street. A minor injury.August 11, 2026, at Monroe Street. A minor injury.February 14, 2019, at Madison St. A possible injury.October 19, 2019, at Madison St. A possible injury.February 21, 2020, at Madison St. A minor injury.May 7, 2021, at Madison St. A minor injury.April 7, 2022, at Madison St. A minor injury.May 4, 2022, at Madison St. A possible injury.April 18, 2022, at Madison St. A possible injury.October 29, 2023, at Madison St. A possible injury.December 21, 2025, at Newark Street (Hudson County 636). Seriously hurt someone.October 22, 2021, at Jefferson St. A minor injury.June 17, 2019, at Marin Blvd. A minor injury.March 24, 2023, at Henderson St. A minor injury.February 6, 2026, at Marin Boulevard. A possible injury.June 15, 2024, at Marin Boulevard. A minor injury.April 5, 2024, at Willow Avenue (Hudson County 675). A possible injury.January 8, 2019, at Cr 675 / Willow Ave. A minor injury.November 18, 2021, at Cr 675 / Willow Ave. A possible injury.January 24, 2021, at Cr 675 / Willow Ave. A possible injury.August 1, 2025, at Park Avenue (Hudson County 677 1). A possible injury.July 17, 2026, at Park Avenue (Hudson County 677 1). A possible injury.November 19, 2025, at Park Avenue (Hudson County 677 1). A possible injury.March 6, 2019, at Cr 673 / Garden St. A minor injury.July 10, 2019, at Cr 673 / Garden St. A possible injury.September 12, 2022, at Garden Street. Seriously hurt someone.August 19, 2020, at Bloomfield St. A minor injury.September 10, 2021, at Bloomfield St. A minor injury.December 5, 2025, at Washington Street. A possible injury.June 18, 2026, at Washington Street. A possible injury.October 19, 2019, at Washington St. A possible injury.May 20, 2019, at Washington St. A minor injury.December 10, 2019, at Washington St. A possible injury.December 3, 2020, at Washington St. A minor injury.May 6, 2026, at Hudson Street (Hudson County 679). A possible injury.February 9, 2020, at Cr 679 / Hudson St. A possible injury.March 25, 2021, at Cr 679 / Hudson St. A minor injury.Harrison StreetMadison StreetWillow AvenueGarden StreetWashington StreetWest endEast end

Gray bars count every crash on Observer Highway with a map location, from its west end to its east end. Dots are the 42 that 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 hurt someone

  1. Observer Highway at Madison Street8
  2. Observer Highway at Washington Street6
  3. Observer Highway at Henderson Street5
  4. Observer Highway at Jackson Street4
  5. Observer Highway at Willow Avenue4

Motorcycle crashes are more common on Observer Highway

3 of the 46 crashes involved a motorcycle. That is 7%, against 1% for the whole city.

Observer Highway46 crashes
All of Hoboken761 crashes

Crashes that hurt someone, January 2019 to September 2026. Each crash counts once: someone on foot, then on a bike, then a motorcycle.

Observer Highway, year by year

The worst year was 2019, with 11. Counts jump around from year to year, so read single years with care.

* 2026 runs through September 2026. NJDOT calls these records preliminary. From February 2023, NJDOT's dashboard lists far fewer Hoboken crashes, so the years since undercount.

Other dangerous roads in Hoboken

Ranked by crashes that hurt someone, January 2019 to September 2026.

All Hoboken crash data
  1. Washington Street, rank 1, 6 seriously hurt someone94
  2. Willow Avenue, rank 2, 1 seriously hurt someone84
  3. Park Avenue, rank 3, 0 seriously hurt someone53
  4. 14th Street, tied for rank 5, 2 seriously hurt someone36
  5. Newark Street, tied for rank 5, 2 seriously hurt someone36
  6. 1st Street, rank 7, 1 seriously hurt someone34
  7. Bloomfield Street, rank 8, 2 seriously hurt someone29
  8. Garden Street, rank 9, 2 seriously hurt someone27
  9. Monroe Street, rank 10, 2 seriously hurt someone26

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How we counted

  • Every crash NJDOT's public crash dashboard lists for Hoboken from January 1, 2019 to September 30, 2026, saved October 12, 2026. NJDOT calls these records preliminary. New crashes can take weeks to appear, and older ones can change.
  • Hurt someone means the report lists an injury: a death, or a suspected serious, minor or possible injury, the top four of the five levels police use. We count crashes, not people. Hoboken has too few crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone to rank roads on, so these pages count every crash that hurt someone.
  • A crash counts toward Observer Highway 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. 4 of the 46 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.
  • From February 2023, NJDOT's dashboard lists far fewer Hoboken crashes: about 30 a month, against about 63 before. Years since then undercount.
  • Crash numbers never change a law firm's score.

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