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New Jersey fatal crashes in 1984

FARS records 922 deaths in 859 fatal crashes in New Jersey in 1984.

In 1983 it records 932 deaths in 866 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in New Jersey fell by 1.1% from 1983 to 1984. In the United States they rose by 3.9%.

In 1984, a driver was recorded as drinking in 33.9% of fatal crashes in New Jersey and 41.0% 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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1984 beside 1983

Table 1.New Jersey in 1984, in 1983 and the United States in 1984
FigureNew Jersey, 1984New Jersey, 1983United States, 1984
Deaths92293244,257
Fatal crashes85986639,631
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking29135416,244

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

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 1984

Table 2.New Jersey: counties with a fatal crash in 1984, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Atlantic County4848
Bergen County7269
Burlington County6662
Camden County5754
Cape May County2924
Cumberland County4237
Essex County7468
Gloucester County5248
Hudson County2624
Hunterdon County1716
Mercer County4845
Middlesex County8274
Monmouth County6663
Morris County4543
Ocean County5753
Passaic County3434
Salem County1917
Somerset County1918
Sussex County2723
Union County3229
Warren County1010

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1984 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, 1984
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.18121.1%
6 a.m. to noon14416.8%
Noon to 6 p.m.25229.4%
6 p.m. to midnight28132.8%
Table 4.New Jersey: fatal crashes by weekday, 1984
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday13916.2%
Monday10412.1%
Tuesday12114.1%
Wednesday12514.6%
Thursday10912.7%
Friday12314.3%
Saturday13816.1%

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. New Jersey fatal crashes in 1984. https://fatalroads.com/state/new-jersey/1984/. 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 1984. 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 1984 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 1984 was in New Jersey?

New Jersey had 922 of the 44,257 deaths in the United States in 1984. That is 2.1 percent.

In how many counties of New Jersey did FARS record a fatal crash in 1984?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 21 counties of New Jersey in 1984.

How many fatal crashes in New Jersey in 1984 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 291 of 859 fatal crashes in 1984.