Freehold Township NJ car accidents: Route 9, County Route 537 and the deer season
Police reported 1,991 car accidents in Freehold Township in 2023 and 2024. Someone was hurt or killed in 510 of them: 726 people hurt and 7 killed. Route 9 holds 147 of those injury accidents and County Route 537 is next with 96.1
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Which Freehold Township roads have the most injury accidents?
Route 9, with 147 of the township's 510 injury accidents in 2023 and 2024. County Route 537 comes second with 96, more than Route 33, Route 79 and Route 18 combined.
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| Road | All police-reported accidents | Someone hurt or killed | Share of the township's injury accidents | Of those, rear-end | People killed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Route 9 | 558 | 147 | 28.8% | 77 | 5 |
| County Route 537 | 370 | 96 | 18.8% | 38 | 0 |
| Route 33, including Business 33 | 145 | 38 | 7.5% | 14 | 0 |
| County Route 524 | 134 | 30 | 5.9% | 8 | 0 |
| Route 79 | 75 | 23 | 4.5% | 8 | 0 |
| County Route 527 | 34 | 20 | 3.9% | 3 | 0 |
| Route 18 and County Route 522 together | 30 | 6 | 1.2% | 2 | 0 |
| Other county and local roads | 645 | 150 | 29.4% | 30 | 2 |
| All of Freehold Township | 1,991 | 510 | 100% | 180 | 7 |
Rear-end collisions explain much of Route 9: 77 of its 147 injury accidents, 52 percent. Township-wide the rear-end share is 35.3 percent, against 30.7 percent in Monmouth County.
County Route 537 runs as West Main Street and Monmouth Road here. It holds three of the township's eight busiest injury corners, all on West Main Street.
For Route 9 town by town and its crossings, see Route 9 accident data from Middlesex to Ocean. Route 33 and its bypass have their own Route 33 crash counts by town.
How common are deer and animal crashes in Freehold Township?
About one crash in ten. Police logged 201 animal crashes in 2023 and 2024, 10.1 percent of all Freehold Township accidents, against 7.3 percent across Monmouth County and 3.9 percent statewide.
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| Area | Animal crashes | All accidents | Animal share | Animal crashes where someone was hurt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freehold Township | 201 | 1,991 | 10.1% | 11 |
| Monmouth County | 2,374 | 32,625 | 7.3% | 115 |
| New Jersey | 20,082 | 514,320 | 3.9% | 914 |
November is the peak, with 53 of the 201, and October to December holds 97. Two in three, 133 of 201, happened in the dark. Only Wall, Marlboro and Middletown had more animal crashes in the county.
They rarely hurt anyone: 11 of 201 did. Most were on local and county roads, including 40 on Route 537. What to do after one is on hitting a deer in New Jersey.
Which Freehold Township intersections have the most injury accidents?
Craig Road at Route 9, with 16 injury accidents in 2024 and 2025, 9 of them in preliminary 2025. Route 537 at Redwood Lane and Halls Mill Road at Route 524 follow with 11 each.
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| Crossing | Hurt or killed, 2024 + 2025 | Of which 2024 | Of which 2025 (preliminary) | All accidents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Craig Road at Route 9 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 36 |
| Route 537 (West Main Street) at Redwood Lane | 11 | 5 | 6 | 30 |
| Halls Mill Road at Route 524 (Elton Adelphia Road) | 11 | 5 | 6 | 27 |
| Route 537 (West Main Street) at Gibson Place | 10 | 5 | 5 | 43 |
| Schanck Road at Route 9 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 27 |
| Route 537 (West Main Street) at Gibson Road | 9 | 5 | 4 | 26 |
| Business Route 33 (Park Avenue) at Route 9 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 25 |
| Wemrock Road at Route 33 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 24 |
Craig Road ranks fifth among all Route 9 crossings in the state, and one person was killed there. Route 9 holds three of the eight corners and West Main Street another three.
Police flagged only 145 of the 507 injury accidents in those two years as at an intersection, but 447 name a cross street, so these counts include crashes logged near a corner. The statewide list is on New Jersey intersections with the most injury accidents.
Who was killed in Freehold Township crashes?
Seven people died in 2023 and 2024, and five of those deaths were on Route 9. Four of the five were pedestrians, all struck in the dark or at dawn.
Off Route 9, one person died in a left-turn crash on Wemrock Road and one in a head-on crash on Jackson Mills Road. Preliminary 2025 adds one more death on Jackson Mills Road, a fixed-object crash.
Pedestrian crashes are few but deadly here: 15 in 2023 and 2024, with 4 pedestrians killed. Our pedestrian crash guide covers what PIP pays when you are hit on foot.5
When do Freehold Township accidents happen?
On weekdays, mostly from noon to 6 pm. Monday to Friday holds 404 of the 510 injury accidents, 79 percent, against about 75 percent statewide.
Noon to 3 pm carries 21.4 percent of injury accidents, above the statewide 18.1 percent, and 3 pm to 6 pm another 23.1 percent. Friday is the worst day with 97 and Sunday the quietest with 41.6
The statewide hour-by-hour picture is on when car accidents happen in New Jersey.
Who has your Freehold Township crash report?
Almost always the township's own police. Only 16 of 1,901 Freehold Township records in 2024 and 2025 name a State Police station, all of them Hamilton, and 11 of those were on Route 537.
Freehold Borough is a separate municipality in the NJDOT records, so a crash on the Borough side of the line is not counted here. Check the town printed on your exchange slip before you ask for a report.7
How to request a report, the State Police portal and fees are in how to get your New Jersey accident report. Next door, Wall Township crash data shows a town where the Parkway sends many reports to the State Police. South on Route 9, see Lakewood crash records, or start from the New Jersey car accident help guide.
To the southwest, car accidents in Jackson Township happen mostly on county roads.
Quick answers about Freehold Township
What month has the most deer accidents?
November, in Freehold Township. The township logged 53 animal crashes in the two Novembers of 2023 and 2024, more than in February to May combined.
Are car accidents in Freehold Township going up?
Not the ones where someone is hurt. Injury accidents held at 257 in 2023, 253 in 2024 and 254 in preliminary 2025, while 2025 has only 888 records in all so far.
How many cyclists are hit in Freehold Township?
Few. Police logged 9 bicycle crashes in 2023, 4 in 2024 and 6 in preliminary 2025.8
Rules that apply anywhere in New Jersey
- Medical bills: how New Jersey no-fault (PIP) insurance pays, whoever caused the crash.
- Shared blame: how partial fault works in New Jersey.
- Deadlines: every New Jersey filing and notice clock after a crash.
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Sources
- NJDOT crash records 2023 to 2025 as normalized by the open-source hudcostreets/nj-crashes project, fatal accidents supplemented from NJ State Police fatal crash statistics; our analysis.
- NJDOT crash records via nj-crashes, 2023 and 2024; our count, both directions combined.
- NJDOT crash records via nj-crashes, 2023 and 2024; our count of crashes coded "Animal" (the record does not name the animal).
- NJDOT crash records via nj-crashes, 2024 and 2025; our count of every record that names a cross street, the same method as our Route 9 page, street spellings not merged.
- NJDOT crash records via nj-crashes with the NJSP fatal supplement, 2023 to 2025; our count by road, crash type and light condition.
- NJDOT crash records via nj-crashes, 2023 and 2024; our count by recorded accident time, compared with the statewide profile.
- NJDOT crash records via nj-crashes, 2024 and 2025; our count of records with a State Police station filled in.
- NJDOT crash records via nj-crashes, 2023 to 2025; our count by month, year and crash type.
How we counted, and what these numbers cannot tell you
- Records: every NJDOT crash record for Freehold Twp, Monmouth County, 2023 to 2025, normalized by nj-crashes, deaths supplemented from State Police. 2025 is preliminary, at 88 percent of the 2024 total.
- Road rows match the route number plus a state-style road name for Routes 9, 33, 79 and 18; county routes match the number without it. Both directions are added.
- Crossings and the State Police field use 2024 and 2025. Crossings count every record naming a cross street; spellings are not merged, so they are a floor.
- Counts, not risk rates: we have no traffic volumes. They do not show fault, whether you have a claim or its worth. General information, not legal advice.