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Newark's most dangerous roads

From January 1, 2019 to October 31, 2026, 1,531 crashes in Newark killed or seriously hurt someone. McCarter Highway had the most, 110. People on foot were in 45% of the crashes that killed someone, and 4 to 8 pm was the worst time of day. Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT crash records as of November 8, 2026.

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  1. Stop 1 of 13 · The worst crashes

    1 in 50 crashes killed or seriously hurt someone

    That's 1,531 of 77,302. Police rate each crash by its worst injury, on a five-step scale. Most hurt no one.

    In the picture: Every crash, 77,302 of them, as a dot in one disc, laid out like the seeds of a sunflower, with the 1,531 that killed or seriously hurt someone in red. Then a lens opens on its middle: in every 50 crashes, on average, 1 killed or seriously hurt someone, 10 had a minor or possible injury and 39 hurt no one.

    • 184 killed someone
    • 1,347 serious injury
    • 5,373 minor injury
    • 10,287 possible injury
    • 60,111 no injury

    Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, January 2019 to October 2026.

  3. Stop 3 of 13 · The worst road

    110 crashes on McCarter Highway killed or seriously hurt someone

    The most of any road. 19 of them killed someone. 22 involved someone on foot. Its worst cross street: East 3rd Avenue, with 11.

    Every crash on McCarter Highway

    NJDOT crash dashboard, January 2019 to October 2026.

  4. Stop 4 of 13 · Per mile driven

    7.1 crashes that hurt someone per million miles driven on 1st Street

    McCarter Highway has the most crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone. Per mile driven, counting every crash that hurt someone, 1st Street comes first of 7 roads with traffic counts, with about 6,600 cars a day. McCarter Highway, the busiest at about 61,100, has 0.8.

    In the picture: The map closes in on 1st Street, drawn in white, with its crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone in red.

    Every road, per mile driven

    Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT crash records and FHWA traffic counts, 2020 to 2023. Traffic counts are estimates, so a rate is too.

  5. Stop 5 of 13 · The worst corner

    28 people hurt at McCarter Hwy and Raymond Blvd in 2023

    The most of any corner that year. 36 crashes, no one killed. 1 involved someone on foot or a bike.

    In the picture: The map dives into the corner where McCarter Hwy meets Raymond Blvd, 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 28 people hurt there in 2023. The pins stand together at the corner: the records don't say where at it each person was hurt.

    NJDOT crash dashboard, 2023. Corners group reports by the two street names police wrote.

  6. Stop 6 of 13 · People on foot

    45% 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 14 times as likely to kill or seriously hurt someone as a crash with only people in vehicles: 1 in 6, against 1 in 88.

    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 77,302 crashes4%
    • Crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone32%
    • Crashes that killed someone (82 of 184)45%

    Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard. Each crash counts once: someone on foot, then on a bike, then a motorcycle.

  7. Stop 7 of 13 · Crosswalks

    12% of people hurt on foot were crossing in a marked crosswalk

    Police wrote that 266 of the 2,130 people hurt on foot from 2019 to 2023 were crossing in a marked crosswalk at a corner. For 86% of them, police listed nothing the person on foot did to contribute. For none of them did police write that the person didn't follow the signal or sign.

    In the picture: A street corner from above. Of every 100 people hurt on foot, 12 were in one of its marked crosswalks and 20 were crossing somewhere else. The other 68 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.

  8. Stop 8 of 13 · Hit-and-runs

    1 in 3 crashes that hurt someone on foot was a hit-and-run

    In 706 of 2,045, the driver left. In 24% of crashes that hurt someone on foot, a driver was turning left.

    In the picture: 3 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.

  9. Stop 9 of 13 · Time of day

    48% of crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone happened between 4 pm and midnight

    That's 727 of the 1,529 with a time on the report, in 8 of the day's 24 hours. 4 to 8 pm had the most: 396. A crash between midnight and 4 am was 2.9 times as likely to kill or seriously hurt someone as one between 8 am and noon: 1 in 30, against 1 in 88.

    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 9 of 13 · Late at night

    56% of crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone between midnight and 4 am came on Friday and Saturday nights

    That's 109 of the 194, 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.

  10. Stop 10 of 13 · After dark

    1.9× as likely to kill or seriously hurt someone after dark as in daylight, once a crash happens

    After dark, 1 in 34 crashes killed or seriously hurt someone: 749 of 25,837. In daylight, 1 in 66: 780 of 51,399. Long winter nights put more of the day in the dark: 60% of the hours from November to January, 39% from May to July.

    In the picture: Two grids of 1,000 crashes, one after dark on a night sky and one in daylight. Every dot is a crash. The ones that killed or seriously hurt someone light up red: 29 after dark and 15 in daylight.

    Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, every crash with a time on the report, by each day's sunset and sunrise in Newark.

  11. Stop 11 of 13 · Where drivers live

    61% of drivers in crashes that hurt someone live outside Newark

    Police wrote down a home for 22,650 drivers. 13,851 of them live somewhere else, including 1,434 in New York.

    In the picture: Of every 100 drivers with a home on the report, 39 live in Newark, 49 in the rest of New Jersey, 6 in New York and 6 in other states.

    Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's final crash tables, 2019 to 2023.

  12. Stop 12 of 13 · Year by year

    295 crashes killed or seriously hurt someone in 2021, the most of any full year before the records thin out

    From September 2024, NJDOT's dashboard lists far fewer Newark crashes: the drop is missing records, not safer streets. 2026 runs through October 31, 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. 2021 is marked the most. 2026's row stops where the records do. A line marks where NJDOT's records thin out.

    NJDOT crash dashboard, January 2019 to October 2026.

  13. Stop 13 of 13 · Your street

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    See where any street in Newark ranks, how many crashes police reported on it, and when the ones that hurt someone happened. The map below has every crash.

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    Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, January 2019 to October 2026, saved November 8, 2026. Streets come from the road names police wrote, and a crash at a corner counts on both streets. NJDOT lists far fewer Newark crashes from September 2024 on, so every street's counts are low.

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1,531 crashes · 458 with no map point

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MapStreet view

NJDOT police crash records (form NJTR-1), 2019 to 2026, saved November 8, 2026. 458 of the 1,531 have no usable map point and still count in every total. Dots sit where NJDOT placed each crash. City outline: City of Newark. Streets and water in the picture: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2026. Live map: OpenFreeMap, data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

1,531crashes killed or seriously hurt someone
184crashes killed someone. 208 people died.
1,347crashes seriously hurt someone
77,302crashes reported to police in all

01The roads

33% of crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone were on these 10 roads

501 of the 1,531 were on these 10 roads, out of 309 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

  1. 1McCarter Highway

    110 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone

    19 killed someone22 on foot

  2. 2US 1 and 9

    76 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone

    16 killed someone5 on foot

  3. 3Frelinghuysen Avenue

    51 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone

    10 killed someone16 on foot

  4. 3Broad Street

    51 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone

    6 killed someone28 on foot

  5. 51st Street

    50 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone

    4 killed someone17 on foot

  6. 6Springfield Avenue

    43 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone

    5 killed someone13 on foot

  7. 7Interstate 78

    35 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone

    20 killed someone7 on foot

  8. 8Clinton Avenue

    31 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone

    5 killed someone14 on foot

  9. 9Clifton Avenue

    27 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone

    3 killed someone6 on foot

  10. 9South Orange Avenue

    27 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone

    No one killed13 on foot

Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, January 2019 to October 2026. Each number counts crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone, and a tie shares its rank. 185 of these crashes have no map point, so they aren't drawn.

02Per mile driven

Per mile driven, 1st Street had the most crashes that hurt someone

7.1 per million miles on 1st Street, which carries about 6,600 cars a day. McCarter Highway carries the most, about 61,100 a day, and had 0.8. Crash counts rise with traffic. These divide each road's crashes that hurt someone by the miles driven on it, 2020 to 2023.

Per million miles drivenThe range chance alone could give itNew Jersey, every road, 2022

  1. 1st Street

    1st Street: 7.1 crashes that hurt someone per million miles driven, from 74 crashes. Chance alone could put it anywhere from 5.5 to 8.9. About 6,600 cars a day.

  2. Clinton Avenue

    Clinton Avenue: 4.3 crashes that hurt someone per million miles driven, from 152 crashes. Chance alone could put it anywhere from 3.7 to 5.1. About 11,400 cars a day.

  3. Springfield Avenue

    Springfield Avenue: 3.4 crashes that hurt someone per million miles driven, from 190 crashes. Chance alone could put it anywhere from 3.0 to 3.9. About 17,900 cars a day.

  4. Clifton Avenue

    Clifton Avenue: 2.4 crashes that hurt someone per million miles driven, from 70 crashes. Chance alone could put it anywhere from 1.8 to 3.0. About 7,400 cars a day.

  5. South Orange Avenue

    South Orange Avenue: 1.9 crashes that hurt someone per million miles driven, from 171 crashes. Chance alone could put it anywhere from 1.7 to 2.3. About 22,100 cars a day.

  6. Broad Street

    Broad Street: 1.3 crashes that hurt someone per million miles driven, from 173 crashes. Chance alone could put it anywhere from 1.1 to 1.5. About 30,700 cars a day.

  7. McCarter Highway

    McCarter Highway: 0.8 crashes that hurt someone per million miles driven, from 418 crashes. Chance alone could put it anywhere from 0.7 to 0.9. About 61,100 cars a day.

No rate yet

Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT crash records and FHWA traffic counts, 2020 to 2023. 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 2023 counts. Sources: FHWA traffic counts, saved November 8, 2026; NJDOT statewide crash rates, checked October 26, 2026.

03The hours

48% of crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone happened between 4 pm and midnight

That's 727 of the 1,529 with a time on the report, in 8 of the day's 24 hours. A crash between midnight and 4 am was 2.9 times as likely to kill or seriously hurt someone as one between 8 am and noon: 1 in 30, against 1 in 88.

4 pm to midnightOther hoursPoint at or tap an hour to see its count.

Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, January 2019 to October 2026. Each bar is an hour of the day, its area set by its count. 2 crashes with no time on the report aren't in it.

04The week

Evenings were the worst part of the day, every day but Wednesday

We split each day into three 8-hour parts. Every day but Wednesday, 4 pm to midnight had at least 10% more crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone than either of the other two.

Crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone, by day of the week and 4 hours of the day
Day12 to 4 am4 to 8 am8 am to noonNoon to 4 pm4 to 8 pm8 pm to midnight
Monday252322375141
Tuesday132122455636
Wednesday82432434833
Thursday151830426646
Friday242336406857
Saturday522225385258
Sunday571416355560

FewerMoreOutlined: the square with 68

Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, January 2019 to October 2026. Each square counts crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone on that day of the week, in those 4 hours. 2 with no time on the report aren't in it.

05What police wrote

12% 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 3

    crashes that hurt someone on foot was a hit-and-run, where a driver left: 706 of 2,045.

  • 24%

    of crashes that hurt someone on foot, a driver was turning left: 494 of 2,045.

  • 12%

    of people hurt on foot were crossing in a marked crosswalk at a corner: 266 of 2,130.

  • 86%

    of people hurt in a marked crosswalk at a corner had nothing police listed that they did to contribute: 228 of 266. Police wrote for none of them that they didn't follow the signal or sign, and that a driver didn't yield to 54 (20%).

  • 61%

    of drivers in crashes that hurt someone live outside Newark: 13,851 of 22,650 with a home on the report. 6% live in New York.

  • 19%

    of injuries police wrote down were to the back: 3,117 of 16,586. Then the head (2,838), the knee, lower leg or foot (2,116) and the neck (2,112).

  • 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 October 31, 2026.

    Each bar shows the share in its sentence.

    After a hit-and-run: what to do and who pays

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 November 8, 2026.

06What makes a crash worse

A crash involving a motorcycle was 19 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 19× as likely to kill or seriously hurt someone as crashes with only people in vehicles

    22% of crashes involving a motorcycle killed or seriously hurt someone: 140 of 649.

    1% of crashes with only people in vehicles killed or seriously hurt someone: 827 of 72,794.

    Each grid is 100 crashes. Filled: the ones that killed or seriously hurt someone.

    Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, January 2019 to October 2026.

  • Crashes with someone on foot were 14× as likely to kill or seriously hurt someone as crashes with only people in vehicles

    1 in 6 crashes with someone on foot killed or seriously hurt someone: 489 of 3,060.

    1 in 88 crashes with only people in vehicles killed or seriously hurt someone: 827 of 72,794.

    Each grid is 100 crashes. Filled: the ones that killed or seriously hurt someone.

    Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, January 2019 to October 2026.

  • Crashes with someone on a bike were 8× as likely to kill or seriously hurt someone as crashes with only people in vehicles

    1 in 11 crashes with someone on a bike killed or seriously hurt someone: 75 of 799.

    1 in 88 crashes with only people in vehicles killed or seriously hurt someone: 827 of 72,794.

    Each grid is 100 crashes. Filled: the ones that killed or seriously hurt someone.

    Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, January 2019 to October 2026.

  • People riding without a seat belt or child seat were 4× as likely to be killed or seriously hurt in a crash as people buckled in

    1 in 29 people riding without a seat belt or child seat were killed or seriously hurt: 56 of 1,631.

    1 in 130 people buckled in were killed or seriously hurt: 564 of 73,155.

    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 2.9× as likely to kill or seriously hurt someone as crashes between 8 am and noon

    1 in 30 crashes between midnight and 4 am killed or seriously hurt someone: 194 of 5,839.

    1 in 88 crashes between 8 am and noon killed or seriously hurt someone: 183 of 16,130.

    Each grid is 100 crashes. Filled: the ones that killed or seriously hurt someone.

    Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, January 2019 to October 2026.

  • Crashes after dark were 1.9× as likely to kill or seriously hurt someone as crashes in daylight

    1 in 34 crashes after dark killed or seriously hurt someone: 749 of 25,837.

    1 in 66 crashes in daylight killed or seriously hurt someone: 780 of 51,399.

    Each grid is 100 crashes. Filled: the ones that killed or seriously hurt someone.

    Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT's crash dashboard, January 2019 to October 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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How we counted

14 notes on what these police records leave out, including the gap from September 2024.
  • Every crash NJDOT's public crash dashboard (now its Crash Data Portal) lists for Newark from January 1, 2019 to October 31, 2026: 77,302 crashes, saved November 8, 2026. NJDOT calls these records preliminary. New crashes can take weeks to appear, and older ones can change.
  • A crash is in Newark when the police report puts it inside the city's limits, on any road, state highways and interstates included, like US 1 and 9 and Interstate 78.
  • 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 35 deaths in 34 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 5 of the 5 years we checked. The crash file lists every death as NJDOT recorded it, so anyone can check.
  • A crash counts toward a road when the police report puts it there. Spellings of one road count as one: "ROUTE 506 SPUR" and "BROAD ST" are both Broad Street, by the city's own street map. Where one county route number covers two roads, the crash's location or cross street decides which. For 1,497 crashes, 47 of them ones that killed or seriously hurt someone, the report gives the route and nothing that settles it, so they count in every total but no road's rank.
  • NJDOT's dashboard lists far fewer Newark crashes from September 2024 on: about 391 a month, against about 987 before. We keep every record NJDOT has, and leave the years since out of the season averages.
  • Dots sit where NJDOT placed each crash. Where NJDOT's records give no point, mostly before 2023, the dot sits where the two streets on the police report meet, on the city's own street map. We checked that on 11,374 crashes that have both: half land within 24 meters of the report's point, and 9 in 10 within 129. 1,073 of the 1,531 crashes have a location. We don't guess the other 458, and they still count in every total.
  • Counts are not adjusted for traffic or road length. A long, busy road like McCarter Highway 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 2023, 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 5 full years, 2019 to 2023, and divide by the days in each month.
  • For 2019 to 2023, yearly crash counts here differ from NJDOT's final crash tables by 1.8% at most. We checked the tables on November 8, 2026.
  • These are police reports. A crash nobody reported isn't here, including one where a driver left before a report was written. A hit-and-run counts when the report says a driver left the scene. 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.

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