Fatalities On NJ Highways: See Which Roads Are Most Dangerous

NEW JERSEY — Driving is always risky, especially at high speeds—and new data shows on which major highways in New Jersey that drivers may want to be most cautious.

Media company Stacker analyzed data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System to identify the highways with the most fatalities and crashes in New Jersey.

Interstate 95 was the highway with the most crashes and fatalities in a single year, their analysis found.

The most recent NHTSA data available is 2020, when 38,824 people were killed in traffic crashes on U.S. roadways — despite a drastic change in travel patterns due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That number is a grim increase of about 7 percent from 2019, according to data released this month.

Nearly half of all fatal crashes involve a driver that was either speeding, impaired by alcohol, not wearing a seat belt, or some combination of those three, NHTSA analysis shows. The number of people killed in crashes with any of these factors rose nationally, statistics show.

Also, compared to 2019, 11 percent more of fatal crashes involved motorcyclists and 3.9 percent more of fatal crashes involved pedestrians in 2020.

The number of people injured in motor vehicle traffic crashes in the U.S. dropped by 17 percent in 2020, said the NHTSA, with 2.28 million individuals hurt.

New Jersey State Police data shows a total of 550 accidents and 587 fatalities on NJ roads in 2020.

Here is Stacker’s ranking of the highways with the most fatalities in New Jersey (several are tied):

22. US-206

• Fatalities : 5

• Number of crashes: 5

22. SR-31

• Fatalities : 5

• Number of crashes: 5

22. SR-28

• Fatalities : 5

• Number of crashes: 5

22. SR-23

• Fatalities : 5

• Number of crashes: 5

20. US-46

• Fatalities : 6

• Number of crashes: 6

20. SR-73

• Fatalities : 6

• Number of crashes: 6

14. US-322

• Fatalities : 7

• Number of crashes: 7

14. US-30

• Fatalities : 7

• Number of crashes: 7

14. SR-33

• Fatalities : 7

• Number of crashes: 7

14. SR-17

• Fatalities : 7

• Number of crashes: 7

14. I-80

• Fatalities : 7

• Number of crashes: 7

14. I-287

• Fatalities : 7

• Number of crashes: 7

13. SR-38

• Fatalities : 8

• Number of crashes: 6

12. I-295

• Fatalities : 8

• Number of crashes: 7

11. US-40

• Fatalities : 8

• Number of crashes: 8

10. 444

Fatalities : 9

Number of crashes: 7

9. SR-27

• Fatalities : 9

• Number of crashes: 9

8. I-78

• Fatalities : 10

• Number of crashes: 10

7. SR-47

• Fatalities : 12

• Number of crashes: 10

5. US-9

• Fatalities : 12

• Number of crashes: 12

5. 444 (Garden State Parkway)

• Fatalities : 12

• Number of crashes: 12

4. SR-35

• Fatalities : 13

• Number of crashes: 11

3. US-130

• Fatalities : 14

• Number of crashes: 12

2. US-1

• Fatalities : 18

• Number of crashes: 18

1. I-95

• Fatalities : 24

• Number of crashes: 21