Spanish Fork's Most Dangerous Intersections for Pedestrians and Cyclists

This page combines two UDOT data sets. A safety model of signalized intersections provides the signals, 19 of them in Spanish Fork, with estimates of vehicle volume, foot traffic, bicycle traffic and nearby schools and bus stops. Crash records provide the collisions. A crash involving a pedestrian or bicyclist was tied to whichever modeled signal stood closest, as long as it was within 250 feet, the intersection distance in the Highway Safety Manual. Serious or fatal means UDOT coded the crash Fatal or Suspected Serious Injury.

That gives Spanish Fork 16 pedestrian crashes and 10 bicycle crashes. Two of each were serious or fatal: 12.5% of the pedestrian crashes and 20.0% of the bicycle crashes. Thirteen of the 19 signals recorded at least one crash and six recorded none. At about 1.4 crashes per signal, the city sits well under the statewide figure of roughly 2.5.

Main Street and US-6, Side by Side

Nine of the modeled signals are on Main Street, from 1600 North south to Arrowhead Trail Road, and four are on US-6 on the city's east side. Main Street's nine logged 8 pedestrian and 7 bicycle crashes, 15 in all, and 2 of those were serious or fatal. US-6's four logged 4 pedestrian and 2 bicycle crashes, 6 in all, and 2 of those were serious or fatal as well. A third of the US-6 crashes ended in serious injury or death, against about one in seven on Main Street.

Vehicle volume does not explain the gap. UDOT's model puts the busier road at most of these signals in a similar range on both highways, about 23,000 to 36,000 vehicles a day. Foot traffic differs. The model's three highest walker estimates in the city are downtown on Main Street, about 287, 272 and 136 people a day at 400 North, Center Street and 300 South, while the US-6 signals range from about 26 to 110. More people on foot near Main Street fits its larger pedestrian count. Why US-6's smaller number of crashes were more often severe is something the records cannot answer, and with six crashes, chance may be part of it.

Spanish Fork Signals With a Pedestrian Crash

Nine signals recorded at least one pedestrian crash, and all nine appear here. Order: more pedestrian crashes first, then more bicycle crashes, then more serious or fatal pedestrian crashes, and north to south for any tie still standing. Every traffic and foot-traffic figure is a UDOT model estimate.

• Center Street & Main Street (SR-156) — 3 pedestrian crashes, 1 of them serious or fatal, and 3 bicycle crashes. The model estimates about 272 people on foot a day, and the busier road is estimated at about 36,000 vehicles a day, the highest vehicle estimate of the city's 19 signals.
• 400 North (SR-147) & Main Street (SR-156) — 3 pedestrian crashes and no bicycle crashes, none serious or fatal. UDOT's model puts foot traffic here at about 287 a day, the highest estimate in Spanish Fork.
• 800 North & US-6 — 2 pedestrian crashes and 1 bicycle crash, none serious or fatal. The most walked of the US-6 signals by the model's estimate, at about 110 people a day.
• Center Street & 1150 East — 2 pedestrian crashes, neither serious or fatal. A three-leg intersection that UDOT's model lists with two schools nearby and flags as unlit.
• Canyon Road (SR-198) & 2550 East / 2600 East — 2 pedestrian crashes, neither serious or fatal, at a signal where the model estimates about 63 people on foot daily and the busier road at about 5,900 vehicles.
• 1000 North & Main Street (SR-156) — 1 pedestrian crash and 1 bicycle crash, neither serious or fatal. Estimated foot traffic is about 50 a day.
• Center Street & US-6 — 1 pedestrian crash, and it was serious or fatal. Both of the city's serious or fatal pedestrian crashes were on Center Street: this one, and one at Center Street and Main Street.
• 300 South (SR-198) & Main Street (SR-156) — 1 pedestrian crash, not serious or fatal. The model lists two bus stops nearby and about 136 people on foot a day.
• US-6 & 2550 East — 1 pedestrian crash, not serious or fatal, at the signal with the lowest estimated foot traffic on this list, about 26 a day.

Counts here are low. No signal has more than 3 pedestrian crashes over seven and a half years, and seven of the nine have 1 or 2. Main Street contributes four entries, US-6 three, and the remaining two are on Center Street east of downtown and on Canyon Road. Read the order as a record of where crashes were reported, not as a fine-grained ranking of risk.

The Bicycle Record

Ten bicycle crashes were recorded at seven signals. Center Street and Main Street had 3 and 800 North and Main Street had 2; five other signals had 1 each. The two serious or fatal bicycle crashes both came at signals with just that single bicycle crash: 1000 North at US-6, and Main Street at Volunteer Road near the south end of the city. That puts Spanish Fork's serious share for cyclists at 20.0%, the highest of any Utah city in our count with at least 10 bicycle crashes, though it rests on two crashes. UDOT's model expects few riders anywhere in the city; no signal's estimate reaches 5 a day.

What the Model's Estimates Show

Alongside the signal list, UDOT's model carries estimated daily walkers and riders, vehicle volumes for each road, counts of nearby schools and bus stops, and a flag for unlit crossings. Those figures speak to exposure. UDOT also computes a predicted crash figure for each signal, but it was produced apart from these records and has no defined period, so it is never compared with the counts here.

Foot traffic lines up with the pedestrian crashes fairly well in Spanish Fork. The two signals with the highest walker estimates, 400 North and Center Street on Main, hold 6 of the 16 pedestrian crashes. The exceptions run both ways. Main Street at Volunteer Road, estimated at about 4 walkers a day, recorded a serious bicycle crash, and 1000 North at US-6, at about 99, recorded no pedestrian crash at all. Two signals are flagged as unlit: Center Street at 1150 East, with 2 pedestrian crashes, and 1000 North at 600 East, with none. That second signal is also the only one in the city with no pedestrian estimate in the model.

When Spanish Fork's Crashes Happen

No pedestrian crash at a Spanish Fork signal happened before 9 a.m. in the seven and a half years counted. Of the 16, 6 came between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., 6 between 3 and 7 p.m. and 4 after 7 p.m., and both serious or fatal pedestrian crashes came after 3 p.m. Thirteen happened in daylight and 3 after dark.

Cyclists were more often hit in the dark. Four of Spanish Fork's 10 bicycle crashes happened after dark, against 17.6% of bicycle crashes at modeled signals statewide, though none of those 4 was serious or fatal. Both serious bicycle crashes happened in daylight, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Teen Drivers, Hit-and-Runs and the Claim That Follows

Teenage drivers appear on 4 of Spanish Fork's 26 pedestrian and bicycle crashes, including one of the two serious or fatal pedestrian crashes. Three of the 26 were hit-and-runs, 2 involving pedestrians and 1 a cyclist, none of them serious or fatal. One crash report flags distraction and one an older driver; none flags DUI or speeding.

Coverage questions follow these flags. A hit-and-run vehicle that is never identified counts as uninsured under Utah law (Utah Code § 31A-22-305(2)(b)), which brings the injured person's own uninsured-motorist coverage into play. Personal injury protection pays first for medical care, and in the worst cases Utah's minimum PIP benefits also include up to $1,500 for funeral expenses and a $3,000 death benefit paid to the person's heirs (§ 31A-22-307(1)(c)-(d)).

Spanish Fork's Slow Downtown, Fast Highways

Posted limits on Spanish Fork's list fall into two groups. Main Street is listed at 30 mph at Center Street and at 1000 North, the cross streets at 400 North and 300 South are posted 35, and Center Street at 1150 East is a 25 mph crossing. On US-6 the limits climb: 45 to 50 at 800 North, 50 at Center Street and 55 at 2550 East. Ten of the city's 16 pedestrian crashes happened at signals where nothing is posted above 35 mph, 62.5%, against 36.1% statewide.

The fast signals carry the city's serious bicycle crashes. Both happened where a road is listed at 45 or 50 mph, at 1000 North and US-6 and at Main Street (SR-198) and Volunteer Road, and UDOT's sidewalk inventory, which covers state routes only, flags absent or broken sidewalk within about 500 feet of the Volunteer Road signal. These limits come from UDOT's current state-route data and UGRC's Utah Roads, so some may differ from what was posted at the time of a crash.

What the Count Leaves Out

Crashes more than 250 feet from every modeled signal are excluded, so collisions at mid-block crossings, at unsignalized intersections, in parking lots and on rural roads around the city are not here. No crash is counted at two signals. A crash with several injured people counts once, at the severity UDOT recorded. Because Spanish Fork's counts are small, a single collision can move a signal several places or shift a corridor's serious share by five to ten points. And a count is not a finding of fault.

Hurt at One of These Signals

When a crossing has a history of collisions, that history can become part of a claim. It bears on whether the danger was foreseeable and on whether signal timing, crosswalk design or lighting contributed, and the agencies that keep those records can be asked for them. If a highway's design or a government vehicle is part of the claim, Utah's Governmental Immunity Act requires a written notice of claim on a much shorter timeline than an ordinary injury case. Our Spanish Fork pedestrian accident page and bicycle accident guide cover how these claims work, and the statewide guides explain how fault is proven, filing a PIP claim and the deadline to sue. All crash types, street by street, are on our Spanish Fork’s most dangerous roads page.

Damages a Claim Can Seek

• Out of pocket: emergency care, specialists and therapy, lost paychecks, and any lasting drop in the work you can do.
• Personal toll: pain, disrupted sleep and routine, and activities like an evening walk that are harder to return to.
• Down the road: future surgery or treatment, assistive equipment, and care at home for injuries that do not resolve.

Sources and Method

Counts come from UDOT's crash records for January 1, 2018 to August 4, 2025, filtered to crashes involving a pedestrian or bicyclist and assigned to the nearest signal within 250 feet. Serious or fatal reflects UDOT's Fatal or Suspected Serious Injury coding. The signal list and every estimate of vehicles, walkers, riders, schools, bus stops and lighting come from UDOT's signalized-intersection pedestrian and bicycle safety model. City-to-city and statewide comparisons apply the identical method to all 1,263 signals in that model. Crash hours, light conditions 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.