Egg Harbor Township car accidents: where people are hurt, from police records
In Egg Harbor Township, people are hurt most on the Black Horse Pike (Route 40). It had 245 of the township's 966 injury accidents in 2023 and 2024, and 6 of its 8 pedestrian deaths from 2023 to 2025.
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Where are people on foot killed in Egg Harbor Township?
Mostly on the Black Horse Pike: 6 of the 8 pedestrians killed in the township from 2023 to 2025 died on Route 40. The Pike had 7 of the 19 fatal accidents, with 8 of 20 deaths.
Police named Bayport Drive as the cross street twice: a pedestrian death in November 2023 and a head-on accident that killed two people in July 2024. Two pedestrians died on the Pike on the same June 2024 day.
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| Month | Cross street in the report | Accident type | Light | Killed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2023 | Bayport Drive | Pedestrian | Dark, street lights on | 1 |
| May 2024 | Ridge Avenue | Fixed object (a pedestrian was killed) | Dark, street lights on | 1 |
| June 2024 | Bargaintown Road (County 651) | Pedestrian | Dark, no street lights | 1 |
| June 2024 | Delancy Avenue | Pedestrian | Daylight | 1 |
| July 2024 | Bayport Drive | Head on | Dusk | 2 |
| February 2025 | Not recorded | Pedestrian | Dark, street lights on | 1 |
| November 2025 | Toulon Avenue | Pedestrian | Dark, street lights off | 1 |
Darkness is the common thread: 14 of the township's 19 fatal accidents happened after dark or at dusk. Delaware Avenue at Fernwood Avenue, a township street, appears twice too, in May 2024 and May 2025.
For the hours when accidents peak statewide, see when most New Jersey car accidents happen. The rest of the corridor is on Black Horse Pike accidents town by town.
Route 40, Tilton Road or the Parkway: which sees more people hurt?
Route 40, by far: 245 injury accidents in 2023 and 2024, a quarter of the township total, part of the same corridor as Black Horse Pike crashes in Washington Township. County 651 (Bargaintown Road and Fire Road) is a distant second with 86.
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| Road (NJDOT route) | Someone hurt or killed, 2023 + 2024 | All accidents, 2023 + 2024 | People killed, 2023 + 2024 | Someone hurt or killed, 2025 (preliminary) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Route 40 (Black Horse Pike) | 245 | 597 | 6 | 84 |
| County 651 (Bargaintown Road, Fire Road, Jeffers Landing Road) | 86 | 272 | 1 | 42 |
| Route 563 (Tilton Road) | 72 | 228 | 1 | 40 |
| Route 559 and 559 Alternate (Ocean Heights Avenue, Somers Point-Mays Landing Road) | 65 | 171 | 0 | 36 |
| Garden State Parkway | 62 | 284 | 1 | 23 |
| County 646 (Delilah Road) | 53 | 128 | 0 | 30 |
| Route 575 (English Creek Avenue) | 41 | 136 | 0 | 19 |
| County 608 (Washington Avenue) | 37 | 94 | 0 | 14 |
| County 662 (West Mill Road) | 33 | 72 | 1 | 14 |
| County 615 (Zion Road) | 22 | 85 | 0 | 9 |
| Atlantic City Expressway | 20 | 78 | 0 | 15 |
The Parkway runs the other way: 284 recorded accidents, but only 62 hurt someone, against 245 of 597 on Route 40. Streets with no route number add 183 injury accidents.
Figures for the whole toll road are on our Garden State Parkway accident records page.
Why does Hingston Avenue keep turning up at the busiest corners?
Three of the eleven junctions with 4 or more injury accidents in 2024 and 2025 name Hingston Avenue. By map coordinates, they and Bargaintown Road at Old Egg Harbor Road lie within about 700 meters of each other.
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| Intersection as the police wrote it | Someone hurt or killed | All accidents | People hurt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ridge Avenue at West Jersey Avenue | 6 | 13 | 11 |
| Bargaintown Road (County 651) at Old Egg Harbor Road (County 687) | 6 | 10 | 9 |
| Hingston Avenue at Route 563 (Tilton Road) | 6 | 7 | 7 |
| Delilah Road (County 646) at English Creek Road (County 603) | 4 | 8 | 8 |
| Bargaintown Road (County 651) at West Mill Road (County 662) | 4 | 7 | 5 |
| Spruce Avenue (County 684) at Route 40 (Black Horse Pike) | 4 | 7 | 9 |
| County 687 at Hingston Avenue | 4 | 5 | 7 |
| Hingston Avenue at Old Egg Harbor Road (County 687) | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| Oakland Avenue at Tremont Avenue | 4 | 4 | 7 |
| Route 575 at West Jersey Avenue | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Uibel Avenue at Route 40 (Black Horse Pike) | 4 | 4 | 7 |
Two rows are probably one junction written two ways, since County 687 is Old Egg Harbor Road. Together they would have 8 injury accidents, more than any single row above.
Are Egg Harbor Township accidents going down?
Not much: 470 injury accidents in 2023, 496 in 2024 and 441 in the preliminary 2025 file. That is still more than one a day.
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| Year | Accidents | Someone hurt or killed | People killed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1,541 | 470 | 3 |
| 2024 | 1,411 | 496 | 14 |
| 2025 (preliminary) | 1,355 | 441 | 3 |
The township leads Atlantic County, ahead of Atlantic City's 876 injury accidents and Hamilton Township's 509. Other counts of 1,275 include cases the state file lists twice.
Rows in the state file and repeats removed
| Year | Rows in the file | Repeated rows removed | Accidents counted once | People hurt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2,318 | 777 | 1,541 | 671 |
| 2024 | 1,546 | 135 | 1,411 | 685 |
| 2025 (preliminary) | 1,356 | 1 | 1,355 | 626 |
Township police, Galloway State Police or the Expressway: who has your report?
It depends on the road: the responding department for local roads and Route 40, the State Police portal for the Parkway, and the Expressway Authority for the Atlantic City Expressway.
- Township streets, county roads and Route 40. Ask the department that responded to the accident.
- Garden State Parkway. Use the NJSP and NJ Turnpike Authority crash report portal: $5.00 per toll road report. In 2025, 111 township Parkway records name the State Police Galloway station.
- Atlantic City Expressway. Request it from the Atlantic City Expressway Authority, not the state portal. In 2023 and 2024, 82 township records name the Expressway station. Injury and death counts are on the Atlantic City Expressway crash page.
Mail addresses, other fees and how long each agency takes are in our accident report fees and wait times by agency.2
Hit on Route 40 or a township street: what comes next?
Our statewide pages answer the questions that follow an Egg Harbor Township accident:
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 in Egg Harbor Township. 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. 3
- 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. 4
- 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. 5
- 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. 6
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
- Police crash reports collected by NJDOT for 2023 to 2025, as cleaned by the hudcostreets/nj-crashes open-source project, with fatal accidents added from the NJ State Police fatal crash statistics; Egg Harbor Township counts are ours.
- Report routes and the toll road fee from the official NJSP and NJTA crash report portal; station counts are ours.
- 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
- NJDOT crash records for 2023 to 2025, Atlantic County, Egg Harbor Township, with State Police fatal accidents added. 2023 and 2024 are complete; 2025 is preliminary.
- Two rows count as one accident when year, case sequence and date and minute match ("23-010017" and "2023010017" are one case).
- Roads are grouped by NJDOT route number, merging every police spelling.
- Corners use 2024 and 2025 accidents NJDOT marks as at an intersection, with spellings kept apart, so they are floors. 2023 names streets differently.
- Station counts use an undocumented field, blank on 2,870 of 2,952 rows in 2023 and 2024.
- Counts are not risk rates and do not show fault.