Interstate 78 crashes in Newark
Interstate 78 had 35 crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone from January 1, 2019 to October 31, 2026, the seventh most of any Newark road. 20 of them killed someone. 7 involved someone on foot. Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT crash records as of November 8, 2026.
- 20
- killed someone
- 15
- seriously hurt someone
- 4,446
- crashes of every kind
Per mile driven: no rate yet, because most of it has no traffic count. Every road, per mile driven
20% involved someone on foot (7 of 35). Citywide, it was 32%.
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Where on Interstate 78
The most crashes of every kind were where it meets New Jersey Turnpike, Bergen Street and US 1 and 9. Crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone were most often where it meets Frelinghuysen Avenue: 2.
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Gray bars count every crash on Interstate 78 with a map location, from its west end to its east end. Dots are the 33 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
- Interstate 78 at Frelinghuysen Avenue2
- Interstate 78 at McCarter Highway2
- Interstate 78 at Bergen Street1
- Interstate 78 at Bragaw Avenue1
- Interstate 78 at Leslie Street1
Who gets hurt on Interstate 78
23 of the 35 crashes involved only people in vehicles. That is 66%, against 54% for the whole city.
Crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone, January 2019 to October 2026. Each crash counts once: someone on foot, then on a bike, then a motorcycle.
Interstate 78, year by year
The worst year was 2021, with 9. Counts jump around from year to year, so read single years with care.
* 2026 runs through October 2026. NJDOT calls these records preliminary. From September 2024, NJDOT's dashboard lists far fewer Newark crashes, so the years since undercount.
Other dangerous roads in Newark
Ranked by crashes that killed or seriously hurt someone, January 2019 to October 2026.
All Newark crash data- McCarter Highway, rank 1, 19 killed someone110
- US 1 and 9, rank 2, 16 killed someone76
- Frelinghuysen Avenue, tied for rank 3, 10 killed someone51
- Broad Street, tied for rank 3, 6 killed someone51
- 1st Street, rank 5, 4 killed someone50
- Springfield Avenue, rank 6, 5 killed someone43
- Clinton Avenue, rank 8, 5 killed someone31
- Clifton Avenue, tied for rank 9, 3 killed someone27
- South Orange Avenue, tied for rank 9, no one killed27
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How we counted
- Every crash NJDOT's public crash dashboard (now its Crash Data Portal) lists for Newark from January 1, 2019 to October 31, 2026, saved November 8, 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 Interstate 78 when the police report puts it there and inside Newark's limits, so only the stretch in Newark counts. 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. 2 of the 35 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.
- Per mile driven divides the 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. Traffic counts are estimates, so a rate is too.
- From September 2024, NJDOT's dashboard lists far fewer Newark crashes: about 391 a month, against about 987 before. Years since then undercount.
- 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.
- Crash numbers never change a law firm's score.
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Source: Counselworthy analysis of NJDOT police crash records, counselworthy.com
