diff --git a/axum/Cargo.toml b/axum/Cargo.toml
index e9e6c646f7..adf45db775 100644
--- a/axum/Cargo.toml
+++ b/axum/Cargo.toml
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ quickcheck = "1.0"
 quickcheck_macros = "1.0"
 reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["json", "stream", "multipart"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
-serde_json = "1.0"
+serde_json = { version = "1.0", features = ["raw_value"]}
 time = { version = "0.3", features = ["serde-human-readable"] }
 tokio = { package = "tokio", version = "1.25.0", features = ["macros", "rt", "rt-multi-thread", "net", "test-util"] }
 tokio-stream = "0.1"
diff --git a/axum/src/response/sse.rs b/axum/src/response/sse.rs
index e77b8c78a8..48e8c78420 100644
--- a/axum/src/response/sse.rs
+++ b/axum/src/response/sse.rs
@@ -213,7 +213,24 @@ impl Event {
         }
 
         self.buffer.extend_from_slice(b"data: ");
-        serde_json::to_writer((&mut self.buffer).writer(), &data).map_err(axum_core::Error::new)?;
+        struct IgnoreNewLines<'a>(bytes::buf::Writer<&'a mut BytesMut>);
+        impl std::io::Write for IgnoreNewLines<'_> {
+            fn write(&mut self, buf: &[u8]) -> std::io::Result<usize> {
+                let mut last_split = 0;
+                for delimiter in memchr::memchr2_iter(b'\n', b'\r', buf) {
+                    self.0.write(&buf[last_split..delimiter])?;
+                    last_split = delimiter + 1;
+                }
+                self.0.write(&buf[last_split..])?;
+                Ok(buf.len())
+            }
+
+            fn flush(&mut self) -> std::io::Result<()> {
+                self.0.flush()
+            }
+        }
+        serde_json::to_writer(IgnoreNewLines((&mut self.buffer).writer()), &data)
+            .map_err(axum_core::Error::new)?;
         self.buffer.put_u8(b'\n');
 
         self.flags.insert(EventFlags::HAS_DATA);
@@ -515,6 +532,7 @@ mod tests {
     use super::*;
     use crate::{routing::get, test_helpers::*, Router};
     use futures_util::stream;
+    use serde_json::value::RawValue;
     use std::{collections::HashMap, convert::Infallible};
     use tokio_stream::StreamExt as _;
 
@@ -527,6 +545,18 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(&*leading_space.finalize(), b"data:  foobar\n\n");
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn valid_json_raw_value_chars_stripped() {
+        let json_string = "{\r\"foo\":  \n\r\r   \"bar\\n\"\n}";
+        let json_raw_value_event = Event::default()
+            .json_data(serde_json::from_str::<&RawValue>(&json_string).unwrap())
+            .unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(
+            &*json_raw_value_event.finalize(),
+            format!("data: {}\n\n", json_string.replace(['\n', '\r'], "")).as_bytes()
+        );
+    }
+
     #[crate::test]
     async fn basic() {
         let app = Router::new().route(