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The dead are not the passengers / Agency

New Jersey Transit Corporation

· Newark, NJ · NTD ID 20080

New Jersey Transit Corporation reported 4,215 major safety and security events across 2014-2026, in which 85 people died. Against the service it actually delivered, that is 3.93 events per million vehicle revenue miles - worse than 85 of the 108 agencies big enough to rank, and 1.22x the national rate.

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Events per million miles
3.93
#23 of 108 agencies · national 3.21 · median 2.88
Events, all years
4,215
#5 nationally by raw count · 2014-2026
People killed
85
5,298 injured, 40 seriously
Service driven
299M
vehicle revenue miles, 2022-2024 · 1,173 events in that window
Its rate on a scale ending at the worst agency in the country (New Orleans Regional Transit Authority, 12.54). The tick is the national rate (3.21).
Who died on this system
  • People on the road 39
  • Other or unclassified 14
  • People on the right-of-way 13
  • Suicides 8
  • Riding the vehicle 4
  • Transit workers 4
  • Waiting or boarding 3

Mutually exclusive victim classes, summing to 85. Trespasser deaths are an overlay on these, not an extra row.

Its events, by year

2014: 175 → 2025: 463 · peak 463

2026 excluded - it is a partial year.

Assaults on its workers
2014: 3 worker assault events 2015: 1 worker assault events 2016: 0 worker assault events 2017: 0 worker assault events 2018: 0 worker assault events 2019: 2 worker assault events 2020: 1 worker assault events 2021: 3 worker assault events 2022: 2 worker assault events 2023: 6 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2024: 11 worker assault events (after the reporting change) 2025: 10 worker assault events (after the reporting change)

39 total · peak 11 in a year

The dashed line is the 2023 FTA reporting change. Bars after it are better captured, so the step up across that line is partly a change in counting, not only a change in the world.

What it runs
  • Fixed-Route Bus 3,475
  • Other Non-Rail 322
  • Core Rail 244
  • Distance Rail 174

Share of its events by mode. Mode mix moves a rate: street-running light rail generates several times the events per mile that suburban bus does, so read this beside the rate above.