Police recorded 290 crashes on Rockaway Avenue, Brooklyn, between 2023 and 2025, with 235 people injured. That places it #27 among 1,111 Brooklyn streets with at least two crashes a year, and it carried 0.4% of the borough's recorded crashes.
Police recorded 111 crashes on this street in 2025, up 28% from 2024. So far in 2026 (through October 31, 2026), 80 crashes have been recorded.
Crashes on Rockaway Avenue by year
| Year | Crashes | Injured | Killed | Pedestrians injured | Cyclists injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 80 | 59 | 0 | 11 | 4 |
| 2025 | 111 | 83 | 0 | 16 | 6 |
| 2024 | 87 | 62 | 0 | 12 | 5 |
| 2023 | 92 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 4 |
| 2022 | 90 | 67 | 1 | 12 | 5 |
| 2021 | 105 | 74 | 0 | 13 | 3 |
Intersections along Rockaway Avenue
The intersection with the most crashes along it was Linden Boulevard & Rockaway Avenue, with 60 crashes in the same period.
- Linden Boulevard & Rockaway Avenue60 crashes · 66 injured
- Atlantic Avenue & Rockaway Avenue48 crashes · 51 injured
- Livonia Avenue & Rockaway Avenue36 crashes · 17 injured
Injuries and who was hurt
There were 81 injuries for every 100 crashes on Rockaway Avenue, above the Brooklyn rate of 57.
Pedestrians accounted for 17% of injuries on Rockaway Avenue, cyclists for 6.6% and vehicle occupants for 77%. No deaths were recorded in this period.
| Road user | Injured | Share of injured | Killed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 38 | 17% | 0 |
| Cyclists | 15 | 6.6% | 0 |
| Motorists (drivers and passengers) | 173 | 77% | 0 |
What police say caused the crashes
Police named a specific contributing factor in 32% of crashes on Rockaway Avenue. Driver Inattention/Distraction led the list, at 51% of crashes with a known factor, followed by traffic control disregarded and failure to yield right-of-way.
ZIP codes this street crosses
Crashes on Rockaway Avenue by ZIP code, 2023–2025.
How to read these figures
Each figure counts crashes that an NYPD officer reported on the MV-104AN form, which is required when someone is injured or killed or when damage reaches $1,000. One crash can injure several people, so injuries can exceed crashes.
Police do not record the borough or ZIP code for every crash — about 23% of crashes citywide in the same years have no borough — so local totals are a floor, not an exact count. The contributing factor is the one listed for the first vehicle in the report.
Street names in police reports are typed by hand. We merge common spellings (for example "Ave" and "Avenue"), but some crashes on this street may be filed under a variant we could not match.
Source: NYPD crash reports published by NYC Open Data (Motor Vehicle Collisions – Crashes). Data through October 31, 2026. Figures are preliminary and may change. How we calculate these figures.