Atlantic City Expressway accident? At least 198 crashes hurt or killed someone in two years, and the State Police portal does not have your report
Ask the Atlantic City Expressway Authority for the report in writing, not the State Police portal. Crash records show at least 198 Expressway accidents that hurt or killed someone in 2023 and 2024, with 257 people hurt and at least 13 killed. Records missing the route number add 114 injury accidents and 1 death.
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Who has your Atlantic City Expressway accident report?
The Atlantic City Expressway Authority does, by written request. The State Police and Turnpike Authority portal covers non-toll State Police roads, the Turnpike and the Parkway, not the Expressway.
| Where the crash happened | Who releases the report | Fee in our sources |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantic City Expressway, any milepost | Written request to the Atlantic City Expressway Authority, P.O. Box 389, Hammonton, NJ 08037, (609) 965-7200 ext. 108 | Not stated |
| Garden State Parkway or NJ Turnpike | The State Police and Turnpike Authority portal, toll road option | $5 |
| A non-toll road patrolled by State Police | The same portal, non-toll road option | $13 |
| A town street, such as Atlantic Avenue | The town police department that responded | Set by each department |
In 2024 and 2025, the station field on 883 of 955 Expressway records reads "Atlantic City Expressway", and 884 carry a case number starting "A160". The field is undocumented, so it does not say which agency wrote the report; 11 records name the Bellmawr State Police station.
For 2023 the station box is mostly blank (320 of 401 records). If your claim may be against a public body, a written notice is generally due within 90 days; see our tort claim notice guide for public entities.1
Fees, waits and town police contacts for other roads are in our New Jersey accident report guide, agency by agency. To decode the station box and accident codes, use our guide on how to read a New Jersey crash report.
Where on the Atlantic City Expressway do the most injury accidents happen?
Hamilton Township has the most, 56 injury accidents in 2023 and 2024 along roughly mileposts 12 to 23. Winslow Township in Camden County is second with 45.
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| Town (county) | Typical mileposts | Someone hurt or killed | All accidents | People killed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic City (Atlantic) | 0 to 2 | 15 | 58 | 1 |
| Pleasantville (Atlantic) | 3 to 6 | 13 | 71 | 1 |
| Egg Harbor Township (Atlantic) | 6 to 11 | 21 | 79 | 0 |
| Hamilton Township (Atlantic) | 12 to 23 | 56 | 211 | 6 |
| Hammonton (Atlantic) | 26 to 29 | 16 | 55 | 0 |
| Winslow Township (Camden) | 31 to 40 | 45 | 197 | 5 |
| Gloucester Township (Camden) | 41 to 44 | 23 | 72 | 0 |
| Washington Township (Gloucester) | 43 to 44 | 9 | 36 | 0 |
Milepost 43, at the Route 42 junction, had 17 injury accidents in 2023 and 2024, the most of any Expressway mile. It sits on the town line: 9 were coded to Gloucester Township and 8 to Washington Township.
Next in 2023 and 2024 come milepost 20 in Hamilton Township with 12 and milepost 40 in Winslow Township, at Berlin-Cross Keys Road, with 10. Counting preliminary 2025, milepost 43 reaches 25.2
Egg Harbor Township's 21 Expressway injury accidents are a small part of its total; its other roads are on our Egg Harbor Township car accident data page. Atlantic City's street crashes are on our Atlantic City car accident data page, and the roads around milepost 43 on our Washington Township, Gloucester County accident data.
At milepost 7, 11 records name the Garden State Parkway as the cross road; see our Garden State Parkway accident data. For the Camden County end, use our Camden County car accident guide.
Why do so many Expressway crashes involve one car leaving the road?
Guide rails, trees, barriers and signs were hit in 49 percent of Expressway injury accidents in 2023 and 2024, against 12 percent statewide, about four times the share.
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| Accident type (police coding) | Expressway count | Expressway share | Statewide share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fixed object | 97 | 49.0% | 11.6% |
| Same direction, rear end | 45 | 22.7% | 30.7% |
| Same direction, sideswipe | 26 | 13.1% | 8.5% |
| Right angle | 7 | 3.5% | 22.4% |
| Pedestrian | 2 | 1.0% | 6.6% |
Trees were the first thing hit in 48 Expressway accidents in 2023 and 2024, and those killed 7 of the 13 people who died. Another 38 injury accidents, 19 percent, happened in the dark with no street lights, against 4 percent statewide.
Deer were the first thing hit in 59 accidents, though only 5 hurt anyone; see our guide on hitting a deer in New Jersey.
Of the 16 fatal accidents from 2023 to 2025, 11 were in the dark and 6 were flagged for alcohol. Three people killed were pedestrians, in Pleasantville and Hamilton Township.
Four fatal accidents, with 5 deaths, sat between mileposts 20 and 25 in Hamilton Township. If alcohol was involved, see our drunk driving accident page. Across New Jersey roads, the Expressway ranks 48th for injury crashes but 16th for deaths in our most dangerous roads in NJ ranking.3
Are Atlantic City Expressway accidents going up?
Not clearly. The 2025 jump in route-coded records is mostly a coding change, because in 2023 and 2024 hundreds of Expressway records carried no route number.
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| Year | Records with the route number (counted on this page) | Someone hurt or killed | People killed | Records naming the Expressway with no route number (not counted) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 401 | 97 | 7 | 183 |
| 2024 | 378 | 101 | 6 | 222 |
| 2025 (preliminary) | 577 | 157 | 4 | 2 |
Added together, both kinds of record give about 584, 600 and 579 a year, so the road looks flat. Our counts are a floor for 2023 and 2024.
The worst hours run from 1 pm to 6 pm, with 6 pm the single busiest (17 injury accidents). June to August held 55 of 198, just over a quarter, so summer shore traffic does not dominate.4
The other routes to the shore have their own pages: White Horse Pike accident data and Black Horse Pike accident data.
Atlantic City Expressway accident questions
Was there an accident on the Atlantic City Expressway today?
Check 511NJ, the traffic service NJDOT points drivers to, for live Expressway delays and closures, because these figures are police records from 2023 to 2025, not news. The NJ State Police fatal crash statistics list recent deaths. Your report itself comes from the Expressway Authority, as in the agency table above.
How to get a police report from the NJ State Police?
Use the State Police and Turnpike Authority portal for non-toll and toll roads. An Expressway report is the exception: write to the Expressway Authority in Hammonton, as in the report section above.
How to get an accident report online in NJ?
For State Police roads, the Turnpike and the Parkway, use the State Police and Turnpike Authority portal. For the Expressway, our sources list only a written request to the Authority.
Are accident reports public record in NJ?
The basic crash report is. Serious or fatal investigation records are not public and need a subpoena or court order, according to the State Police portal.
What these numbers can and cannot tell you
The counts on this page are police-reported car accidents from NJDOT crash records, analyzed by us. They show where and when accidents where someone was hurt happened on the Atlantic City Expressway. They do not show who was at fault in any accident, and they say nothing about whether you have a claim or what it could be worth.
Rules that apply anywhere in New Jersey
- Your own auto policy's PIP pays eligible medical expenses "no matter who caused the auto accident," up to your policy's limit and after its deductible and co-pay. If you chose your health insurance as primary, it pays first and PIP pays second. A claim against the other driver for pain and suffering is separate: it depends on fault and on the lawsuit option on your policy. 5
- Being partly at fault does not stop you from recovering, as long as your share is not greater than the other driver's, or the combined share of all the drivers you claim against (the "51 percent" rule). Your damages are reduced by your share. 6
- If someone is hurt or killed, or property damage to any one person is over $500, the driver must tell the police right away and send a written report to the Motor Vehicle Commission within 10 days, unless a police officer files one. If police did not investigate, New Jersey's SR-1 self-reporting form is the form for that. 7
- An injury lawsuit generally must be filed within two years, and a claim against a public body (a town, the state, NJ Transit) needs a written notice within 90 days. These are general rules with exceptions; check your own dates with a lawyer. 8
Next steps: how to get your New Jersey accident report, agency by agency, and how New Jersey no-fault (PIP) insurance works after an accident. This is general information, not legal advice.
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Sources
- NJSP and NJTA Crash Report Requests, njportal.com, home and help pages (Expressway contact, fees); N.J.S.A. 59:8-8; NJDOT crash records via nj-crashes, station and case number fields, 2023 to 2025, our count.
- NJDOT crash records via nj-crashes, route 446, town, milepost and cross street fields; town counts 2023 and 2024, typical mileposts are the middle 80 percent of 2023 to 2025 records in each town, single miles 2023 and 2024 unless marked 2025 (preliminary); our count.
- NJDOT crash records via the open-source hudcostreets/nj-crashes project, with the NJ State Police fatal crash statistics added: crash type, first harmful event and light fields for 2023 and 2024 against our statewide profile, fatal records for 2023 to 2025; our count.
- NJDOT crash records via nj-crashes, route 446 and road name fields, 2023 to 2025 (2025 preliminary), crash time field for 2023 and 2024; our count.
- NJ DOBI Auto Insurance Buyer's Guide 2026, pp. 2, 6; DOBI health insurance as primary
- N.J.S.A. 2A:15-5.1; NJ DOBI comparative negligence FAQ
- N.J.S.A. 39:4-130; NJDOT self-reporting crash form
- N.J.S.A. 2A:14-2; N.J.S.A. 59:8-8
How we counted
We counted NJDOT crash records for 2023 to 2025, as normalized by hudcostreets/nj-crashes, with fatal accidents added from the State Police feed (downloaded 6 November 2026). An Expressway record has route number 446 and a road name starting "Atlantic City Expressway"; the Brigantine Connector is left out, and one repeated record was removed.
Headline counts use 2023 and 2024; 2025 is preliminary. Milepost 43 covers 43.00 to 43.99, and cross road counts are a floor. "Hurt or killed" means police recorded at least one injury or death.