One driver was critically hurt in a collision on Route 29 near Cass Street in Trenton at about 3:48 a.m. Saturday, police said. Investigators said one of the vehicles appeared to have been traveling southbound in the northbound lane.
Both drivers were taken to a hospital, with the other driver in stable condition, according to NBC10 Philadelphia. The drivers’ identities had not been released, and the cause remained under investigation. NBC10 reported that one damaged car was still in the roadway when its crew arrived at the scene.
A Second Wrong-Way Crash in Trenton Within Weeks
This is not the first wrong-way crash to hit Trenton roads this fall. Just weeks earlier, a wrong-way crash on Route 1 left one person dead and three others injured, according to nj.com. In that crash, 54-year-old David Rivera of Philadelphia died after two vehicles collided in the southbound lanes near the New York Avenue exit, the outlet reported. One of the surviving victims from that crash was taken to Capital Health Regional Medical Center in critical condition, while two others were hospitalized in stable condition, per the same account.
The Route 1 Crash Was Separate
In a September 11, 2026, report, News 12 New Jersey described a separate early-morning wrong-way crash on Route 1 in Trenton that killed one person and injured three. It was a different crash from the Route 29 collision near Cass Street.
Trenton logged 70 crashes involving serious injuries or fatalities in 2025, according to statistics cited to New Jersey's Target Zero commission and reported by nj.com. That toll is part of a broader statewide pattern: New Jersey recorded 692 traffic deaths in 2024, a 14% increase over the year before.
Statewide Push to Curb Road Deaths
The Target Zero Commission, created to reduce traffic deaths in New Jersey by 2040, reported that 217 road-safety projects are currently underway across 80 state-highway sections identified as having high injury rates, the outlet noted. It remains unclear whether the stretch of Route 29 near Cass Street is among the sections slated for safety improvements.
Police have not said what led one of the vehicles to be traveling the wrong way on Route 29 before Saturday's crash, and the investigation into the cause continues.
