Route 9 crash in Sayreville: cross streets, rush hours and the Route 35 split
Route 9 is the busiest injury road in Sayreville: 126 crashes with someone hurt or killed in 2023 and 2024, most of them rear-end hits in moving traffic. Note your direction and the nearest cross street: Route 9 and Route 35 share the road here.
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Which Route 9 cross streets in Sayreville record the most injuries?
Bordentown Avenue (County 615) and the Route 35 junction at Chevalier Avenue lead, with 13 and 12 injury crashes. Together with Pillar Place they hold a quarter of the corridor's injury crashes.
We count only records coded as road US 9 (581 in all), so our total differs from the 158 Route 9 injury accidents on our Sayreville and Route 9 town pages.
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| Nearest cross street | Crashes, hurt or killed | All crashes |
|---|---|---|
| Bordentown Avenue (County 615) | 13 | 70 |
| Route 35 and Chevalier Avenue | 12 | 41 |
| Pillar Place | 8 | 23 |
| Oak Street and Ridgeway Avenue | 4 | 13 |
| Resean Street | 4 | 12 |
| Kearny Avenue and Oak Street | 4 | 7 |
| No cross street on the record | 44 | 227 |
Only 16 of the 126 injury crashes were coded as at an intersection. The rest happened between signals, in the lanes and merges of the divided highway. Half of all records sit between mileposts 128.8 and 130.6.1
Other stretches of the road are compared in our Route 9 crash records by town, and every Sayreville street is ranked in our Sayreville crash data by street.
Were you on Route 9 or Route 35 when you were hit?
Check the road sign you were under, because the two routes share and split inside Sayreville. Route 9 crosses the Raritan on the Edison Bridge; Route 35 uses the Victory Bridge to Perth Amboy.
The junction itself is the corridor's second worst spot. Route 35 adds 48 injury crashes of its own in the borough, and the Parkway another 96, so a wrong road name can send a report request to the wrong file.2
North of the river the corridor continues in our Woodbridge crash records, and south in our Old Bridge crash records. The Route 35 side is in Route 35 crash records by town, and nearby towns in the Middlesex County accident hub.
What kind of crash is most common on Route 9 here?
Rear-end impacts: 75 of the 126 injury crashes. Sideswipes, the typical lane-change or merge crash, add 23 more. Same-direction crashes make up nearly four in five.
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| Crash type | Hurt or killed | All crashes |
|---|---|---|
| Rear-end | 75 | 293 |
| Sideswipe, same direction | 23 | 190 |
| Fixed object | 15 | 41 |
| Right angle | 6 | 25 |
Across all Sayreville roads, rear-end crashes are 37 percent of injury crashes. On Route 9 they are 60 percent.3
When is the Route 9 commute through Sayreville most crash-prone?
The evening drive home: 30 of the 126 injury crashes happened from 3 pm to 6 pm, and the 5 pm hour alone had 14. The midday window from noon to 3 pm follows with 24.
- Saturday (24) and Wednesday (23) lead the week; Thursday is lowest (11).
- All 3 deaths, at mileposts 128.5, 129.0 and 131.5, happened in the dark on lit road.
- The count fell from 84 injury crashes in 2023 to 42 in 2024; preliminary 2025 records show 36.4
Who is at fault when you are rear-ended on Route 9?
Not automatically the driver behind: New Jersey splits fault by percentage among the drivers, and you recover if your share is not greater than theirs.
Of our 76 New Jersey car appeals, 15 involve a rear-end impact. The outcomes are in our New Jersey rear-end crash guide and the New Jersey car accident appeals index.
Who has the police report for a Route 9 crash in Sayreville?
The agency that came: a Sayreville officer means the borough Records Bureau, a trooper means the state portal, and on the Parkway stretch it is the state portal too.
The Records Bureau contact is on our Sayreville accident report page, and fees and waits for each agency are in how to get a New Jersey car accident report.
Route 9 Sayreville questions
Do I need to call the police if I get rear-ended on Route 9?
Yes if anyone is hurt or killed, or damage tops 500 dollars: New Jersey requires telling police right away. The 10-day written report and the SR-1 form are on our Sayreville crash guide.
What should I do right after being rear-ended on Route 9?
Note the milepost or the nearest cross street, since 110 of 126 injury crashes here were between signals with no intersection name. What to photograph is in our rear-end crash guide.
Is Route 9 the most dangerous road in Sayreville?
By count it leads, with 126 injury crashes in two years against 96 on the Parkway. These are counts, not rates per mile driven.
How does insurance calculate lost wages after a Route 9 crash?
The proof insurers ask for, from missed shifts to employer letters, is in our guide to claiming lost wages after a New Jersey crash.
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Sources
- NJDOT crash records 2023 and 2024 as normalized by the open-source hudcostreets/nj-crashes project, our count of US 9 records in Sayreville Boro by cross street.
- NJDOT Route 9 and 35 project page and Victory Bridge page; NJDOT crash records 2023 and 2024 via nj-crashes, our road counts for Sayreville.
- NJDOT crash records 2023 and 2024 via nj-crashes, our count; borough figure from our Sayreville profile of the same records.
- NJDOT crash records 2023 to 2025 via nj-crashes, our count; 2025 is preliminary.
How we counted
- Crash counts: NJDOT crash records for the complete years 2023 and 2024, normalized by the open-source nj-crashes project, filtered to road US 9 in Sayreville Boro (581 records). 2025 is preliminary.
- "Hurt or killed" means at least one person injured or killed. Cross streets are the nearest street on the record, not merged across spellings.
- Court cases: our index of 76 Appellate Division car decisions.
- Counts are frequencies, not risk rates or fault findings.