Most dangerous roads in NJ: deadliest vs most injury crashes

By Sandra H. Brown, Injuries Cases Autos research. Updated 11 November 2026

US 1 is the deadliest road in New Jersey: 50 people died on it in 2023 and 2024. The Garden State Parkway has the most injury crashes, 3,461. The two lists split: the White Horse Pike ranks 15th for injury crashes but 4th for deaths.

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22-second video: US 1 had the most road deaths in 2023 and 2024 (50), the Garden State Parkway the most injury crashes (3,461), and 18 of the 33 people killed on the White Horse Pike were on foot. Source: NJDOT crash records, our analysis.

What is the deadliest road in New Jersey?

US 1, with 50 deaths in two years, ahead of the Turnpike with 43 and the Parkway with 40.¹

The White Horse Pike (33), US 130 (30) and US 40 (23) each lost more people than I-78 (21) or I-295 (18).

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The 10 New Jersey roads where the most people died, 2023 and 2024 (our NJDOT count)
Deaths rank	Road	People killed	Of them, pedestrians	Rank by injury crashes
1	US 1	50	16	2
2	New Jersey Turnpike	43	4	3
3	Garden State Parkway	40	6	1
4	US 30 (White Horse Pike)	33	18	15
5	US 130	30	11	9
6	US 9	27	14	4
7	I-80	25	2	5
8	US 40	23	12	20
9	I-78	21	4	11
10	Route 27	19	7	6

Which NJ roads have the most injury crashes?

The Garden State Parkway: 3,461 crashes that hurt or killed someone in 2023 and 2024, about 4.7 a day.¹

US 22, I-287 and Route 35 rank in the top 14 for injury crashes yet sit 16th to 20th for deaths.

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The 10 New Jersey roads with the most injury-or-fatal crashes, 2023 and 2024 (our NJDOT count)
Injury crash rank	Road	Injury crashes	People injured	Rank by deaths
1	Garden State Parkway	3,461	4,763	3
2	US 1	3,253	4,601	1
3	New Jersey Turnpike	2,840	4,172	2
4	US 9	2,158	2,939	6
5	I-80	1,738	2,451	7
6	Route 27	1,431	2,018	10
7	US 46	1,327	1,833	15
8	Route 35	1,315	1,815	16 (tie)
9	US 130	1,309	1,881	5
10	US 22	1,242	1,721	19

Which highway is the most dangerous?

It depends on the count: toll roads lead on injury crashes, while older surface pikes climb when you count deaths.

The Atlantic City Expressway ranks 48th for injury crashes (198) but 16th for deaths (13).
US 322 ranks 32nd for injury crashes and joint 12th for deaths, with 16.
Route 55 ranks 40th for injury crashes and joint 20th for deaths, with 10.
Route 4 ranks 33rd for injury crashes, with 397, and recorded 1 death.

Pedestrians drive much of the gap. On the White Horse Pike 18 of 33 people killed were on foot, against 4 of 43 on the Turnpike, counting the pedestrians-killed field of each crash record.¹ Our pedestrian crash guide covers what follows a crash on foot.

These are counts, not risk per mile driven: the records hold no traffic volumes, so a road with more cars logs more crashes. For single corners rather than whole roads, see the 25 NJ intersections with the most injury crashes.

All 45 top roads ranked both ways

The 45 New Jersey roads with the most injury-or-fatal crashes, with their deaths rank, 2023 and 2024 (our NJDOT count)
Injury crash rank	Road	Injury crashes	People killed	Rank by deaths
1	Garden State Parkway	3,461	40	3
2	US 1	3,253	50	1
3	New Jersey Turnpike	2,840	43	2
4	US 9	2,158	27	6
5	I-80	1,738	25	7
6	Route 27	1,431	19	10
7	US 46	1,327	14	15
8	Route 35	1,315	13	16
9	US 130	1,309	30	5
10	US 22	1,242	11	19
11	I-78	1,195	21	9
12	I-295	1,091	18	11
13	US 206	1,086	13	16
14	I-287	1,062	10	20
15	US 30 (White Horse Pike)	856	33	4
16	Route 70	830	16	12
17	Route 47	806	15	14
18	US 202	771	6	31
19	Route 17	769	7	28
20	US 40	754	23	8
21	Route 18	681	9	24
22	Route 3	674	4	36
23	Route 33	655	8	26
24	I-280	638	9	24
25	Route 21	615	7	28
26	Route 28	578	5	34
27	Route 23	559	10	20
28	Route 42	527	3	41
29	Route 73	463	6	31
30	Route 38	456	10	20
31	Route 31	436	8	26
32	US 322	422	16	12
33	Route 4	397	1	60
34	Route 440	393	3	41
35	Route 10	388	1	60
36	Route 36	309	6	31
37	Route 24	284	0	75
38	Route 49	281	7	28
39	Route 124	276	1	60
40	Route 55	260	10	20
41	Route 37	258	4	36
42	I-195	252	1	60
43	Route 34	229	2	50
44	Route 495	224	1	60
45	Route 15	216	3	41

Tied roads share the higher rank, so several roads with 1 death share rank 60. The Atlantic City Expressway, 48th, sits just below this table.

Where is the crash data for each New Jersey road?

Each entry links to the road's page or county section and shows injury crashes, then deaths, for 2023 and 2024.¹

Guides for single stretches

Statewide totals by year, county and town are on New Jersey car accident statistics.

Questions people ask

What is the most dangerous highway in the nation?

We rank New Jersey records only, so we cannot name a national road. In New Jersey, US 1 recorded the most deaths in 2023 and 2024, and the Garden State Parkway the most injury crashes.

Was there a deadly accident on the NJ Turnpike yesterday?

Our police files cannot answer for a single day. Our Turnpike crash data page covers that question, and how to get your NJ accident report covers a recent crash.

Is it safe to drive in New Jersey now?

1,294 people died on New Jersey roads in 2023 and 2024, and 645 of them, half, on the 166 numbered routes ranked here. These are past police records, so they cannot rate today's roads.¹

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