Stop 1 of 14 · How often
One crash every 83 minutes, on average
Police reported 48,959 crashes in Jersey City from January 1, 2019 to September 30, 2026, about 17 a day.
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, saved October 7, 2026.
Jersey City's most dangerous roads
From January 1, 2019 to September 30, 2026, 571 crashes in Jersey City killed or seriously hurt someone, NJDOT's public records show as of October 7, 2026. Kennedy Boulevard had the most, 65. People on foot were in 43% of the crashes that killed someone, and 4 to 8 pm was the worst time of day.
Stop 2 of 14 · The worst crashes
1 in 86 crashes killed or seriously hurt someone
That's 571 of 48,959. Police rate each crash by its worst injury, on a five-step scale. Most hurt no one.
In the picture: Every crash, 48,959 of them, as a dot in one disc, laid out like the seeds of a sunflower, with the 571 that killed or seriously hurt someone in red. Then a lens opens on its middle: in every 86 crashes, on average, 1 killed or seriously hurt someone, 16 had a minor or possible injury and 69 hurt no one.
- 63 killed someone
- 508 serious injury
- 3,021 minor injury
- 5,989 possible injury
- 39,378 no injury
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, January 2019 to September 2026.
Stop 3 of 14 · The worst roads
45% of crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone were on just 10 roads
256 of the 571 were on these 10. In all, 152 roads had at least one.
- 1Kennedy Boulevard65
- 2Route 44036
- 3Truck Routes 1 and 924
- 4Interstate 7823
- 4Ocean Avenue23
- 6Communipaw Avenue22
- 7Grand Street17
- 8Martin Luther King Jr. Drive16
- 9Tonnelle Avenue15
- 9West Side Avenue15
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard. Ties share a rank.
Stop 4 of 14 · The worst road
65 crashes on Kennedy Boulevard killed or seriously hurt someone
The most of any road. 9 of them killed someone. 31 involved someone on foot. Its worst cross street: Newark Avenue, with 5.
Every crash on Kennedy Boulevard
NJDOT crash dashboard, January 2019 to September 2026.
Stop 5 of 14 · Per mile driven
9.5 crashes that hurt someone per million miles driven on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
Kennedy Boulevard has the most crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone. Per mile driven, counting every crash that hurt someone, Martin Luther King Jr. Drive comes first of 7 roads with traffic counts, with about 4,900 cars a day. Interstate 78, the busiest at about 60,800, has 0.3.
In the picture: The map closes in on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, drawn in white, with its crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone in red.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Drive9.5
- Communipaw Avenue7.0
- Grand Street3.7
- Ocean Avenue2.2
- Route 4401.4
- West Side Avenue1.3
- Interstate 780.3
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT crash records and FHWA traffic counts, 2020 to 2025. Traffic counts are estimates, so a rate is too.
Stop 6 of 14 · The worst corner
31 people hurt at Communipaw Ave and Route 440 in 2025
The most of any corner that year, 1 more than General Pulaski Skyway and Route 139. 74 crashes, no one killed. 1 involved someone on foot or a bike.
In the picture: The map dives into the corner where Communipaw Ave meets Route 440, and its ground tilts up into a 3D model of it, its two streets at the angles they really run, with a red pin for each of the 31 people hurt there in 2025. The pins stand together at the corner: the records don't say where at it each person was hurt.
NJDOT crash dashboard, 2025. Corners group reports by the two street names police wrote.
Stop 7 of 14 · People on foot
43% of crashes that killed someone involved a person on foot
Someone on foot was in 4% of all crashes. The worse the crash, the bigger that share. A crash with someone on foot was 17 times as likely to kill or seriously hurt someone as a crash with only people in vehicles: 1 in 11, against 1 in 189.
In the picture: A dot for each crash. The dots gather into a person walking, a bike, a motorcycle and a car, then pour into four columns: someone on foot, on a bike, on a motorcycle, and only people in vehicles, each with its picture on top. The crashes that killed someone are bright, and each column counts them.
- All 48,959 crashes4%
- Crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone31%
- Crashes that killed someone (27 of 63)43%
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard. Each crash counts once: someone on foot, then on a bike, then a motorcycle.
Stop 8 of 14 · Crosswalks
42% of people hurt on foot were crossing in a marked crosswalk
Police wrote that 464 of the 1,116 people hurt on foot from 2019 to 2023 were crossing in a marked crosswalk at a corner.
In the picture: A street corner from above. Of every 100 people hurt on foot, 42 were in one of its marked crosswalks and 17 were crossing somewhere else. The other 41 were doing something else, or police didn't say.
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's final crash tables, 2019 to 2023. What police wrote isn't a finding of fault.
Stop 9 of 14 · Hit-and-runs
1 in 4 crashes that hurt someone on foot was a hit-and-run
In 274 of 1,067, the driver left. In 30% of crashes that hurt someone on foot, a driver was turning left.
In the picture: 4 roads, each with a car stopped just past the person it hit. On one, the car drives off and leaves the person behind.
After a hit-and-run: what to do and who pays
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's final crash tables, 2019 to 2023.
Stop 10 of 14 · Time of day
47% of crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone happened between 4 pm and midnight
That's 268 of the 571 with a time on the report, in 8 of the day's 24 hours. 4 to 8 pm had the most: 142. A crash between midnight and 4 am was 3 times as likely to kill or seriously hurt someone as one between 8 am and noon: 1 in 42, against 1 in 138.
In the picture: A 24-hour clock with one dot for each crash, at the hour it happened. The slice from 4 pm to midnight is shaded, with its share in the middle.
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard.
Stop 10 of 14 · Late at night
49% of crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone between midnight and 4 am came on Friday and Saturday nights
That's 37 of the 75, on 2 of the week's 7 nights. Friday night runs into early Saturday, and Saturday night into early Sunday.
In the picture: The clock unrolls into one long day from noon to the next noon, then splits into seven rows, one for each night of the week. Each crash is a dot at its hour. Between midnight and 4 am, the crashes on Friday and Saturday nights turn red.
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard.
Stop 11 of 14 · After dark
62% of crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone from November to January happened after dark
That's 79 of 128 with a time on the report. From May to July, 40% did. Clocks fall back in early November, and evenings go dark an hour sooner.
In the picture: Two 24-hour days, November to January above May to July, each with its own sky: night, sunrise, day and sunset. Each crash is a dot at the time it happened, stacked by the half hour. The sun sets and night spreads to the next sunrise, turning red each crash after dark on its own date, so the red part of each day is its share after dark. Under each, that season's sunsets.
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, by each day's sunset and sunrise in Jersey City.
Stop 12 of 14 · Where drivers live
54% of drivers in crashes that hurt someone live outside Jersey City
Police wrote down a home for 9,772 drivers. 5,293 of them live somewhere else, including 980 in New York.
In the picture: Of every 100 drivers with a home on the report, 46 live in Jersey City, 39 in the rest of New Jersey, 10 in New York and 5 in other states.
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's final crash tables, 2019 to 2023.
Stop 13 of 14 · Year by year
121 crashes killed or seriously hurt someone in 2025
2021 was close, with 110. 2023 looks low because only 13 crashes were rated a suspected serious injury that year, against 62 the year before and 76 the year after. 2026 runs through September 30, 2026.
In the picture: A row for each year, like the rods of an abacus. Each crash lands on its year's row at the day of the year it happened, then the dots slide left into a bar with the year's count at its end. 2026's row stops where the records do.
NJDOT crash dashboard, January 2019 to September 2026.
Stop 14 of 14 · Your street
Now find your street
See where any street in Jersey City ranks, how many crashes police reported on it, and when the ones that hurt someone happened. The map below has every crash.
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, January 2019 to September 2026, saved October 7, 2026. Streets come from the road names police wrote, and a crash at a corner counts on both streets.
Explore every crash
Filter by injury, who was hurt, vehicle, year and time of day. Find your street, and ride along it in street view.
Jersey City crash map
NJDOT police crash records (form NJTR-1), 2019 to 2026, saved October 7, 2026. 10 of the 571 have no usable map point and still count in every total. 1 sits just past the edge of the picture. Dots sit where NJDOT placed each crash. City outline: City of Jersey City. Streets and water in the picture: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2026. Live map: OpenFreeMap, data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
571crashes killed or seriously hurt someone
63crashes killed someone. 66 people died.
508crashes seriously hurt someone
48,959crashes reported to police in all
For the map's filters.
01The roads
45% of crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone were on these 10 roads
256 of the 571 were on these 10 roads, out of 152 roads with at least one. Counts aren't adjusted for traffic or road length, and a long, busy road will have more.
A crash that seriously hurt someoneA crash that killed someone
65 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone
9 killed someone31 on foot
36 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone
7 killed someone5 on foot
24 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone
6 killed someone4 on foot
23 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone
2 killed someone6 on foot
23 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone
2 killed someone12 on foot
22 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone
3 killed someone4 on foot
17 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone
No one killed3 on foot
16 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone
No one killed3 on foot
15 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone
2 killed someone4 on foot
15 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone
1 killed someone6 on foot
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, January 2019 to September 2026. Each number counts crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone, and a tie shares its rank. 1 of these crashes has no map point, so it isn't drawn.
02Per mile driven
Per mile driven, Martin Luther King Jr. Drive had the most crashes that hurt someone
9.5 per million miles on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, which carries about 4,900 cars a day. Interstate 78 carries the most, about 60,800 a day, and had 0.3. Crash counts rise with traffic. These divide each road's crashes that hurt someone by the miles driven on it, 2020 to 2025.
Per million miles drivenThe range chance alone could give itNew Jersey, every road, 2022
Martin Luther King Jr. Drive: 9.5 crashes that hurt someone per million miles driven, from 164 crashes. Chance alone could put it anywhere from 8.1 to 11.1. About 4,900 cars a day.
Communipaw Avenue: 7.0 crashes that hurt someone per million miles driven, from 266 crashes. Chance alone could put it anywhere from 6.1 to 7.8. About 9,700 cars a day.
Grand Street: 3.7 crashes that hurt someone per million miles driven, from 175 crashes. Chance alone could put it anywhere from 3.2 to 4.3. About 11,200 cars a day.
Ocean Avenue: 2.2 crashes that hurt someone per million miles driven, from 149 crashes. Chance alone could put it anywhere from 1.9 to 2.6. About 14,900 cars a day.
Route 440: 1.4 crashes that hurt someone per million miles driven, from 267 crashes. Chance alone could put it anywhere from 1.3 to 1.6. About 29,100 cars a day.
West Side Avenue: 1.3 crashes that hurt someone per million miles driven, from 77 crashes. Chance alone could put it anywhere from 1.0 to 1.7. About 10,900 cars a day.
Interstate 78: 0.3 crashes that hurt someone per million miles driven, from 283 crashes. Chance alone could put it anywhere from 0.3 to 0.4. About 60,800 cars a day.
No rate yet
- Kennedy Boulevard: the federal and state traffic counts for it disagree by more than a quarter.
- Truck Routes 1 and 9: most of its crashes sit off the stretch with a traffic count.
- Tonnelle Avenue: most of its crashes sit off the stretch with a traffic count.
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT crash records and FHWA traffic counts, 2020 to 2025. A rate counts a road's crashes that hurt someone where a traffic count runs beside them, over the miles driven there: each stretch's cars a day, times its length, times the days. Traffic counts are estimates too. Each road's line shows the range chance alone could give it (95%). Cars a day are FHWA's 2025 counts. Sources: FHWA traffic counts, saved October 26, 2026; NJDOT statewide crash rates, checked October 26, 2026.
03The hours
47% of crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone happened between 4 pm and midnight
That's 268 of the 571 with a time on the report, in 8 of the day's 24 hours. A crash between midnight and 4 am was 3 times as likely to kill or seriously hurt someone as one between 8 am and noon: 1 in 42, against 1 in 138.
4 pm to midnightOther hoursPoint at or tap an hour to see its count.
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, January 2019 to September 2026. Each bar is an hour of the day, its area set by its count.
04The week
Evenings were the worst part of the day, every day but Tuesday
We split each day into three 8-hour parts. Every day but Tuesday, 4 pm to midnight had at least 10% more crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone than either of the other two.
| Day | 12 to 4 am | 4 to 8 am | 8 am to noon | Noon to 4 pm | 4 to 8 pm | 8 pm to midnight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 6 | 13 | 19 | 10 | 18 | 17 |
| Tuesday | 4 | 6 | 8 | 27 | 17 | 13 |
| Wednesday | 12 | 4 | 9 | 20 | 23 | 18 |
| Thursday | 5 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 19 | 12 |
| Friday | 11 | 6 | 12 | 13 | 23 | 27 |
| Saturday | 19 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 17 | 21 |
| Sunday | 18 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 25 | 18 |
FewerMoreOutlined: the 2 squares with 27
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, January 2019 to September 2026. Each square counts crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone on that day of the week, in those 4 hours.
05What police wrote
42% of people hurt on foot were crossing in a marked crosswalk at a corner
From the full police reports, 2019 to 2023. What police wrote isn't a finding of fault.
1 in 4
crashes that hurt someone on foot was a hit-and-run, where a driver left: 274 of 1,067.
30%
of crashes that hurt someone on foot, a driver was turning left: 317 of 1,067.
42%
of people hurt on foot were crossing in a marked crosswalk at a corner: 464 of 1,116.
54%
of drivers in crashes that hurt someone live outside Jersey City: 5,293 of 9,772 with a home on the report. 10% live in New York.
20%
of injuries police wrote down were to the back: 1,471 of 7,524. Then the head (1,180), the knee, lower leg or foot (1,178) and the neck (1,009).
These run from 2019 to 2023. They come from NJDOT's final crash tables, which keep what police wrote on each report. The rest of this page reads NJDOT's dashboard, through September 30, 2026.
Each bar shows the share in its sentence.
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's final crash tables, 2019 to 2023. What police wrote on each crash report (form NJTR-1), 2019 to 2023, the newest years NJDOT has published in full. It isn't a finding of fault. Source: NJDOT crash tables, checked October 16, 2026.
06What makes a crash worse
A crash involving a motorcycle was 24 times as likely to kill or seriously hurt someone as a crash with only people in vehicles
Each line compares crashes after they happened, or the people in them: how often someone was killed or seriously hurt. None of them says how likely anyone is to crash.
Crashes involving a motorcycle were 24× as likely to kill or seriously hurt someone as crashes with only people in vehicles
1 in 8 crashes involving a motorcycle killed or seriously hurt someone: 71 of 555.
1 in 189 crashes with only people in vehicles killed or seriously hurt someone: 238 of 44,991.
Each grid is 100 crashes. Filled: the ones that killed or seriously hurt someone.
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, January 2019 to September 2026.
Crashes with someone on foot were 17× as likely to kill or seriously hurt someone as crashes with only people in vehicles
1 in 11 crashes with someone on foot killed or seriously hurt someone: 177 of 1,994.
1 in 189 crashes with only people in vehicles killed or seriously hurt someone: 238 of 44,991.
Each grid is 100 crashes. Filled: the ones that killed or seriously hurt someone.
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, January 2019 to September 2026.
Crashes with someone on a bike were 11× as likely to kill or seriously hurt someone as crashes with only people in vehicles
1 in 17 crashes with someone on a bike killed or seriously hurt someone: 85 of 1,419.
1 in 189 crashes with only people in vehicles killed or seriously hurt someone: 238 of 44,991.
Each grid is 100 crashes. Filled: the ones that killed or seriously hurt someone.
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, January 2019 to September 2026.
People riding without a seat belt or child seat were At least 3× as likely to be killed or seriously hurt in a crash as people buckled in
Only 14 people riding without a seat belt or child seat were killed or seriously hurt, so this line gives the low end of what the records support.
1 in 74 people riding without a seat belt or child seat were killed or seriously hurt: 14 of 1,041.
1 in 453 people buckled in were killed or seriously hurt: 107 of 48,521.
Each grid is 100 people. Filled: the ones killed or seriously hurt.
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's final crash tables, 2019 to 2023.
Crashes between midnight and 4 am were 3× as likely to kill or seriously hurt someone as crashes between 8 am and noon
1 in 42 crashes between midnight and 4 am killed or seriously hurt someone: 75 of 3,136.
1 in 138 crashes between 8 am and noon killed or seriously hurt someone: 76 of 10,506.
Each grid is 100 crashes. Filled: the ones that killed or seriously hurt someone.
Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, January 2019 to September 2026.
Crashes are set against crashes, and people against people, so how busy a street or an hour is doesn't skew it. Where few crashes stand behind a number, it says “at least” and gives the low end of what the records support. Each line's source is under it.
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14 notes on what these police records leave out, including the 2023 ratings quirk.
- Every crash NJDOT's public crash dashboard lists for Jersey City from January 1, 2019 to September 30, 2026: 48,959 crashes, saved October 7, 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.
- NJDOT's dashboard also lists 12 deaths in 12 crashes it rates below fatal. A record that lists a death but rates the crash below fatal contradicts itself, so the totals leave them out and count deaths only in crashes rated fatal. NJDOT's final crash tables also count fewer deaths than the dashboard in 4 of the 5 years we checked. The crash file lists every death as NJDOT recorded it, so anyone can check.
- The city's Vision Zero page puts the average at 9 traffic deaths and 40 serious injuries a year, counting people. NJDOT's records here average about 11 people killed and 64 crashes with a suspected serious injury a year, 2019 to 2025. Deaths are close. Serious injuries run higher in NJDOT's records, where the rating is the officer's call at the scene. We show NJDOT's numbers as they are.
- 2023's injury ratings are out of line with the years around it. NJDOT lists 5,572 Jersey City crashes that year, within the range of the other years, but only 13 with a suspected serious injury, against 62 in 2022 and 76 in 2024. So the low count for 2023 doesn't mean safer streets.
- A crash counts toward a road when the police report puts it there. Spellings of one road count as one: "Route 501" and "Kennedy Blvd" are Kennedy Boulevard. The far side of a divided road, which NJDOT files as a "secondary" roadway, counts as the same road.
- Dots sit where NJDOT placed each crash. 561 of the 571 crashes have a usable location. We don't guess the other 10, and they still count in every total.
- Counts are not adjusted for traffic or road length. A long, busy road like Kennedy Boulevard will have more crashes. The per mile driven chart is adjusted (next note).
- Per mile driven divides a 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. New Jersey's line is NJDOT's own fatal and injury crashes over its miles driven on every road in 2022, highways included. Traffic counts are estimates, so a rate is too.
- Vehicle shares use every crash involving that kind of vehicle. A crash with a car and a motorcycle counts for both.
- Seasons use the 7 full years, 2019 to 2025, and divide by the days in each month.
- For 2019 to 2023, yearly crash counts here differ from NJDOT's final crash tables by 3.1% at most. We checked the tables on October 16, 2026.
- These are police reports. A crash nobody reported isn't here. If you need the report for your own crash, ask the police department that took it.
- Crash numbers never change a law firm's score.
Source for the city's figures: Streetsblog NYC, "New Jersey Cities Still Eat NYC's Lunch In How Quickly They Work To Slow Down Drivers" (figures from Jersey City's Vision Zero page), June 15, 2026.
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