Pleasant Grove’s Most Dangerous Intersections for Pedestrians and Cyclists

The method is short. UDOT keeps a safety model for signalized intersections, and 12 of the signals in it are inside Pleasant Grove. Every crash in UDOT’s records that involved a person on foot or on a bicycle was assigned to whichever of those signals was nearest, provided it lay no more than 250 feet away; the Highway Safety Manual uses that distance to mark a crash as an intersection crash. Where UDOT coded a crash Fatal or Suspected Serious Injury, this page describes it as serious or fatal.

Across those seven years and seven months the city’s signals logged 11 pedestrian crashes and 7 bicycle crashes, 18 in all, with no crash counted in both columns. Three of the pedestrian crashes were serious or fatal, as was one of the bicycle crashes. Five signals had a pedestrian crash, six had a crash of either kind, and the other six went the whole period without one. For scale, UDOT’s records for Utah County as a whole list 1,106 crashes involving a pedestrian and 798 involving a bicyclist from 2018 into August 2025, at signals and everywhere else.

Where State Street, Main Street and 700 South Meet

Three of the city’s signals sit close together: 700 South (Sam White Lane) at Geneva Road/Main Street (SR-114), State Street (US-89) at 700 South and 300 East, and State Street at Geneva Road/Main Street. The two farthest apart are about 1,800 feet from each other. Between them they hold 8 of Pleasant Grove’s 11 pedestrian crashes, 4 of its 7 bicycle crashes, 2 of the 3 serious or fatal pedestrian crashes and the city’s only serious or fatal bicycle crash. The other nine signals shared the remaining 6 crashes.

One signal inside that small area breaks the pattern. State Street at 100 East lies on State Street between two of the three, it is a three-leg junction rather than a four-way crossing, and it recorded no pedestrian or bicycle crash at all. UDOT’s model gives it about 16 walkers a day, the lowest of any Pleasant Grove signal that has an estimate, while the busier of its two roads carries an estimated 34,000 vehicles, tied for the most in the city. Sitting in the middle of the city’s crash cluster did not put it on the list.

Every Pleasant Grove Signal With a Recorded Crash

Six signals recorded at least one pedestrian or bicycle crash between January 2018 and August 4, 2025, and all six appear below. They are ordered by pedestrian crashes and then by bicycle crashes, which leaves no ties. The remaining six signals recorded neither. Walker, rider and vehicle figures are estimates from UDOT’s model, not counts.

• 700 South (Sam White Lane) & Geneva Road / Main Street (SR-114) — 5 pedestrian crashes, 1 serious or fatal, and no bicycle crashes. The city’s highest pedestrian count came at the signal with its lowest estimated traffic: about 13,000 vehicles a day on the busier road and 1,000 on the other. UDOT’s model puts foot traffic here at about 92 people a day.
• 700 South / 300 East & State Street (US-89) — 3 pedestrian crashes, 1 serious or fatal, and 2 bicycle crashes. It sits about 1,300 feet east of the first entry, has the second-highest walker estimate in the city at about 140 a day, and has a bus stop nearby. The busier road carries an estimated 34,000 vehicles.
• Center Street & 100 East — 1 pedestrian crash and 2 bicycle crashes, none serious or fatal. UDOT’s model lists two schools nearby but has no pedestrian estimate for this signal.
• State Street (US-89) & 1300 West — 1 pedestrian crash and 1 bicycle crash, neither serious or fatal. Two bus stops and a school are nearby, and the model’s rider estimate here, about 6 a day, is one of the two highest in the city.
• Pleasant Grove Boulevard & State Street (US-89) — 1 pedestrian crash, and it was serious or fatal; no bicycle crashes. By UDOT’s estimate this is the city’s busiest walking signal, about 176 people a day, and both of its roads are heavy, at roughly 25,000 and 21,500 vehicles.
• State Street (US-89) & Geneva Road / Main Street (SR-114) — no pedestrian crashes and 2 bicycle crashes, one of them serious or fatal, which makes it the site of Pleasant Grove’s only serious or fatal bicycle crash. The model estimates about 85 walkers and 5 riders a day.

The list thins out quickly. After the first two entries, each remaining signal logged one pedestrian crash or none, so from third place down the order turns on single crashes and one more crash anywhere could reshuffle it. The top of the list carries real weight: 8 of the 11 pedestrian crashes are in its first two lines.

Seven Bicycle Crashes, Four Signals

Every bicycle crash in the count happened at one of four signals. Center Street at 100 East, 700 South at State Street, and State Street at Geneva Road/Main Street recorded 2 apiece, and State Street at 1300 West recorded 1. No signal had more than 2. The single serious or fatal bicycle crash was at State Street and Geneva Road/Main Street. Pleasant Grove Boulevard’s three signals recorded no bicycle crash.

Traffic, Foot Traffic and the Crash Count

UDOT’s model attaches a set of estimates to each signal: people walking and cycling through it on an average day, vehicles on each of the two roads, schools and bus stops in the vicinity, and whether the crossing is lit. These are measures of exposure. The model also predicts a crash figure for every signal, but that prediction was made separately and is not tied to the January 2018 through August 2025 period, so this page does not place it beside the counts.

Neither kind of exposure explains Pleasant Grove’s leader. Geneva Road/Main Street at 700 South has the lowest estimated vehicle traffic of the city’s 12 signals and only the third-highest walker estimate, yet it holds 5 of the 11 pedestrian crashes. Pleasant Grove Boulevard runs the other way: its three signals carry estimated volumes of 25,000 to 31,000 vehicles on the busier road, and together they recorded a single pedestrian crash and no bicycle crashes. Three of the 12 signals, Center Street at 100 East among them, have no pedestrian estimate in UDOT’s model at all, which says more about the model’s coverage than about who walks there. None of the 12 is flagged as unlit.

Pleasant Grove’s Late-Afternoon Crashes

Pleasant Grove’s pedestrian crashes cluster in a narrow part of the day. Seven of the 11 happened between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., and two more came later in the evening, so 9 of 11 fell after 3 p.m. Statewide, the 3-to-7 window accounts for 30.1% of pedestrian crashes at modeled signals, not nearly two-thirds. All 3 of the city’s serious or fatal pedestrian crashes happened in those late hours, and 2 of them were among the 4 that happened after dark.

The season matters as well. All 11 pedestrian crashes fell within the complete years 2018 through 2024, and 8 of them happened between October and January. Cyclists were a daytime story: all 7 bicycle crashes happened in daylight.

No Hit-and-Runs, Several Older Drivers

None of Pleasant Grove’s 18 pedestrian and bicycle crashes carried a hit-and-run, distracted-driving, DUI or speeding flag. The flag that appears most often is an older driver, on 4 of the 18 (2 pedestrian and 2 bicycle crashes); a teenage driver appears on 2 and a disregarded signal or sign on 1. None of the flagged crashes was serious or fatal.

When the driver is known, the injured person’s own coverage still comes first. Utah’s PIP statute covers a named insured hurt in an accident involving any motor vehicle, so a walker’s or rider’s own auto policy can pay early medical bills even though they were not driving (Utah Code § 31A-22-308(1)). A pedestrian hurt in Utah by an insured vehicle can also be covered under that vehicle’s PIP (§ 31A-22-308(3)(b)).

A 50 mph Road at the Top of Pleasant Grove’s List

Pleasant Grove’s leading crash signal is not on a busy road, but it is on a fast one. At 700 South and Geneva Road/Main Street, where the city recorded 5 pedestrian crashes, UDOT’s current speed-limit data lists 50 mph for SR-114, even though the model estimates the lightest traffic of any Pleasant Grove signal there. SR-114 is listed at 50 again at State Street, the site of the city’s only serious or fatal bicycle crash. The other four listed signals top out at 40 mph, on State Street or 100 East.

UDOT’s sidewalk inventory, which covers state routes only, flags absent or broken sidewalk within about 500 feet of three of the six listed signals, all on State Street: at 1300 West, at Pleasant Grove Boulevard and at Geneva Road/Main Street. Limits are UDOT’s current state-route figures and UGRC’s Utah Roads listings for city streets, and may differ from what was posted when an older crash happened.

Limits of a Small Count

Eighteen crashes over more than seven years is a small base, and percentages built on it swing hard. Three serious or fatal pedestrian crashes out of 11 is 27.3%, above the 16.7% statewide under the same method, but one fewer would make it 18.2%. Only crashes within 250 feet of a modeled signal are included, so a pedestrian struck mid-block, in a parking lot or at a crosswalk with no signal is not here. Three signals on the city’s edges that UDOT lists under Pleasant Grove and a neighbor are counted with American Fork or Lindon instead, as explained in the questions below. And a crash count says nothing about who was at fault.

After a Crash at One of These Signals

Where a crossing has a crash history, that history can show the hazard was known before you were hurt, and it bears on any question about how the signal was timed, marked or lit. Those records are held by the city or by UDOT, depending on who operates the signal, and they can be requested. When a government vehicle or the design of a government-owned road is part of the claim, a written notice of claim is due well before the ordinary deadline. Our Pleasant Grove pedestrian accident page explains these cases locally, our overview of bicycle accident claims in Utah covers riders, and the statewide guides explain how fault is proven, how to file a PIP claim and the deadline to sue. For every crash type ranked by street, see Pleasant Grove’s most dangerous roads.

What Compensation Can Cover

• Bills and income: emergency care, imaging, surgery and physical therapy, plus wages lost while healing and any lasting cut to earning power.
• The human cost: pain, broken sleep, anxiety at crosswalks, and the everyday walks and rides an injury takes away.
• The years ahead: care still to come, such as further procedures, continuing therapy or help at home when recovery stops short.

Data and Method

Counts: UDOT crash records from January 1, 2018 through August 4, 2025, limited to crashes involving a pedestrian or bicyclist, each assigned to the nearest signal within 250 feet (the Highway Safety Manual’s intersection distance). Severity: crashes UDOT coded Fatal or Suspected Serious Injury. Estimates: daily walkers, riders and vehicles, schools, bus stops and lighting, all from UDOT’s signalized-intersection pedestrian and bicycle safety model, which also supplies each signal’s city. Distances between signals are calculated from the model’s coordinates. Statewide and Utah County comparisons apply the same matching to all 1,263 modeled signals, and the county-wide totals come from the same crash records. Crash hours, light, months (complete years 2018 through 2024) and driver flags come from the same UDOT records; posted limits come from UDOT’s 2026 state-route speed limits and UGRC’s Utah Roads. Every city we have counted this way is listed on our statewide page, Utah’s most dangerous intersections.