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New Jersey fatal crashes in 1982

FARS records 1,061 deaths in 965 fatal crashes in New Jersey in 1982.

In 1981 it records 1,162 deaths in 1,043 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in New Jersey fell by 8.7% from 1981 to 1982. In the United States they fell by 10.9%.

In 1982, a driver was recorded as drinking in 44.2% of fatal crashes in New Jersey and 41.5% in the United States.

To qualify as a FARS case, the crash had to involve a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public and must have resulted in the death of a motorist or a non-motorist within 30 days of the crash.

The set of first files, known as the Annual Report File (ARF), is released following the crash year. The ARF is replaced about a year later with a final file, which contains additional cases or updates to cases that had become available after the ARF was released.

NHTSA's words. Source: NHTSA, Fatality Analysis Reporting System Analytical User's Manual, 1975-2024 (DOT HS 813 794, April 2026), copied on .

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1982 beside 1981

Table 1.New Jersey in 1982, in 1981 and the United States in 1982
FigureNew Jersey, 1982New Jersey, 1981United States, 1982
Deaths1,0611,16243,945
Fatal crashes9651,04339,092
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking427n/a16,223

Note: this site has no rate for the years before 2000.

Note: FARS records a driver as drinking when police reported alcohol involvement or a test of the driver was positive for alcohol. It is not NHTSA's alcohol-impaired measure. NHTSA's definitions

NHTSA says that its count of drinking drivers is unreliable for 1977, 1981 and 1999 to 2007, because it was derived in a wrong way. This site gives no count for these years.

For the years before 2015 the count is from the FARS element DRUNK_DR. It counts a blood alcohol concentration of .01 g/dL or more. From 2015 the count is from DR_DRINK and counts .001 g/dL or more.

Counties in 1982

Table 2.New Jersey: counties with a fatal crash in 1982, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Atlantic County7465
Bergen County10394
Burlington County7569
Camden County6656
Cape May County2524
Cumberland County3128
Essex County9888
Gloucester County5445
Hudson County5148
Hunterdon County2119
Mercer County2525
Middlesex County7066
Monmouth County8578
Morris County5346
Ocean County5652
Passaic County4341
Salem County2121
Somerset County3129
Sussex County2116
Union County4039
Warren County1816

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1982 is not in the table. A count of 1 or 2 is written "1 or 2".

Time of day and weekday

Table 3.New Jersey: fatal crashes by time of day, 1982
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.27128.2%
6 a.m. to noon15215.8%
Noon to 6 p.m.21322.2%
6 p.m. to midnight32433.8%
Table 4.New Jersey: fatal crashes by weekday, 1982
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday14114.6%
Monday13013.5%
Tuesday11211.6%
Wednesday10210.6%
Thursday12212.6%
Friday16116.7%
Saturday19720.4%

Note: the tables have the fatal crashes with a known hour or weekday.

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. New Jersey fatal crashes in 1982. https://fatalroads.com/state/new-jersey/1982/. Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, FARS 2024 annual file. Data to .

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Source of the figures

Counts: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, national file of 1982. This site reads the years before 2015 from one fixed copy. It does not track later revisions of these years. Residents: Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, vintage 2025. Data to .

How the figures are made. Data sources and licences. Corrections.

Questions

Which file does the 1982 page use?

This site reads the years before 2015 from one fixed copy. It does not track later revisions of these years.

What part of the deaths in the United States in 1982 was in New Jersey?

New Jersey had 1,061 of the 43,945 deaths in the United States in 1982. That is 2.4 percent.

In how many counties of New Jersey did FARS record a fatal crash in 1982?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 21 counties of New Jersey in 1982.

How many fatal crashes in New Jersey in 1982 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 427 of 965 fatal crashes in 1982.