Are the traffic and amount of accidents in New Jersey out of control?

Recently I have been involved in a major car accident on one of the major highways, I-287. I had a first hand experience of what an accident in New Jersey is really like. I've also had an experience viewing accident after accident on highways, city and town roads, and parking lots. As a student of Middlesex County College, I've noticed something that many other students have probably also noted. Almost every other car in the parking lot has been dented or damaged in some way. While there are no exact statistics with this, it seems at least a third if not half of the cars at MCC have been involved in a New Jersey accident.

            I have been to different states like Pennsylvania or Upstate New York and I have never seen the widespread amount of damage on cars that I've seen in New Jersey. There are obvious reasons why there's so much traffic and so many accidents in New Jersey. We have a small state with a very large population, which equals many, many cars. Things are already bad now with the amount of traffic and accidents in place, but things will only get much worse. In reality, the size of New Jersey isn't going to grow. In fact with beach erosion and rising waters, we're technically shrinking with time. What isn't shrinking? The amount of cars in the state. Eventually we will reach a tipping point where there is an accident every minute or even every 30 seconds, and there will be major rush hour-like traffic at 1 PM on a Wednesday afternoon. If people think the amount of traffic or accidents in the state is out of control now, they will soon find out just how bad it's going to get (if they still live in New Jersey that is). So maybe us New Jersey folk should still be thankful because despite how out of control things may seem, they are going to get a lot worse. I would imagine the amount of damaged or dented cars in the MCC parking lots in the next ten years will grow from a third or half to three-fourths or greater. We should be grateful of the traffic situation as well because in ten years, it may take two to three hours to get home from a 10 mile trip from school or work on a Wednesday afternoon.