Sandy's Most Dangerous Roads

This ranking covers streets, not freeways. Every crash in UDOT's records inside Sandy city limits from January 1, 2018 through August 4, 2025 was matched to the street where it happened, using the state's road map and the road the officer named in the report. I-15, interchange ramps, private parking lots and crashes that could not be placed on a street are counted separately. Serious or fatal means a death or a suspected serious injury was reported.

UDOT's records hold 14,320 crashes inside Sandy. I-15 and its ramps account for 3,804 of them, private lots for 359, and 102 could not be tied to a street, which leaves 10,055 on the city's streets. Of those, 210 were serious or fatal and 20 people died. That 2.1% serious share sits below the 2.6% across the seven counties in this data (Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, Weber, Summit, Cache and Washington), and some injury, including a possible injury, was reported in 31.2% of Sandy's street crashes against 32.1% across the seven counties.

Volume in the Valley, Severity Near the Canyons

State Street (US-89), 9000 South, 700 East and 1300 East together carry 4,317 crashes, 42.9% of the city's street total, with 89 of the 210 serious or fatal crashes and 10 of the 20 deaths. State Street alone accounts for 6 of those deaths. On each of the four, rear-end and side-impact collisions make up more than two thirds of the crashes.

Wasatch Boulevard is a different kind of road. It ranks 13th by crashes and 7th by serious ones, and 54.2% of its crashes fall in the group UDOT reports as single-vehicle or not applicable. 36 of its 168 crashes happened on snow, ice or slush (21.4%, against 5.7% citywide), 52 happened after dark, 21 involved a wild animal, and motorcycles were part of 14 crashes and 4 of the serious ones. Its busiest junction is Little Cottonwood Road, with 15 crashes.

Sandy's Busiest Crash Streets

Ranked by crashes recorded inside city limits from January 2018 through August 4, 2025. A crash where two listed streets cross counts once, on the street named in the officer's report. The junctions shown had the most crashes along each street.

• State Street (US-89) — 1,238 crashes, 30 serious or fatal, 6 deaths. Its 9000 South junction had 172 crashes, the most at any junction on Sandy's fifteen busiest streets, followed by 10600 South (111).
• 9000 South (SR-209) — 1,141 crashes, 17 serious or fatal, 2 deaths. The cluster near I-15 leads: 255 West (132), Sandy Parkway (131) and Monroe Street (114). Its 1.5% serious share is the lowest of these ten.
• 700 East (SR-71) — 1,127 crashes, 25 serious or fatal, 1 death. 9000 South (119), 10600 South (99) and 9400 South (87) are its busiest junctions, and 28 of its crashes involved a pedestrian, the most on this list.
• 1300 East — 811 crashes, 17 serious or fatal, 1 death. Its 8600 South junction had 66 crashes and 6 serious ones, more serious crashes than any other junction on the fifteen busiest streets.
• 10600 South — 547 crashes, 13 serious or fatal, 2 deaths. Rear-end crashes were 51.9%, the highest share among these ten, with State Street (83) and 700 East (68) its busiest junctions.
• 9400 South — 545 crashes, 13 serious or fatal, 2 deaths. Side impacts (36.5%) edge out rear-end crashes here, and 3 of its 12 bicycle crashes were serious, the most of any street on this list.
• 11400 South — 379 crashes, 9 serious or fatal, no deaths. A teen driver was involved in 31.9% of them; 700 East (49) and 1300 East (43) are its busiest junctions.
• Highland Drive (2000 East) — 316 crashes, 8 serious or fatal, no deaths. An older driver was flagged in 28.2% of its crashes, the highest share of these ten, and Alta Canyon Drive (48) had 4 serious crashes.
• Sego Lily Drive (9800 South) — 282 crashes, 7 serious or fatal, no deaths. It is the only street on this list with more crashes in 2024 (46) than in 2018 (39), and teen drivers were in 32.6% of its crashes.
• Sandy Parkway (500 West) — 254 crashes, 5 serious or fatal, no deaths. A commercial vehicle was involved in 16.9% of them and side impacts made up 45.3%, both the highest shares here; 95 crashes came at 9000 South.

The ten streets hold 6,640 of Sandy's 10,055 street crashes (66.0%), 144 of the 210 serious or fatal crashes (68.6%) and 14 of the 20 deaths. On 9000 South, the three busiest junctions all sit within a few blocks of the I-15 interchange.

Where Serious Crashes Rank Differently

Rank by serious or fatal crashes and State Street stays first with 30, but 700 East moves up to second with 25. 9000 South, second by total crashes, falls into a tie with 1300 East at 17. Wasatch Boulevard enters at seventh with 10 serious crashes despite ranking 13th by volume, and Sandy Parkway drops off the list.

Distraction and Older Drivers in Sandy's Reports

Rear-end collisions are Sandy's most common street crash (33.8%, against 30.2% across the seven counties), ahead of side impacts (31.5%). They are rarely the worst: 10.0% of the serious or fatal crashes. The group UDOT reports as single-vehicle or not applicable, which includes a vehicle striking a pedestrian, a cyclist or a fixed object, holds 43.8% of them. Motorcyclists were in 2.1% of crashes and 21.0% of serious ones, cyclists in 1.3% and 9.0% (5.4% across the seven counties), and pedestrians in 1.7% and 15.7%.

Officers flagged distraction in 12.5% of Sandy's street crashes, against 9.8% across the seven counties, an older driver in 18.0% (14.9%), a commercial vehicle in 8.9% (6.4%) and a driver leaving the scene in 10.9% (8.6%). Crashes peak in the 5 p.m. hour; Sunday had 658 against Friday's 1,692; and December was the busiest month over the complete years 2018 to 2024. Street crashes fell from 1,608 in 2018 to 1,232 in 2024 (23.4%), and serious or fatal crashes from 32 to 17.

I-15 Carries a Quarter of Sandy's Crashes

I-15 and its ramps account for 3,804 crashes inside Sandy, 26.6% of the city's total, and I-15 itself for 3,784, with 31 serious or fatal and 4 deaths. A crash on the interstate is far less often serious: 0.82% against 2.09% on the city's streets. Rear-end collisions were 54.4% of I-15's crashes, and officers flagged speed in 36.9%. Property-damage crashes below Utah's reporting threshold are missing from UDOT's data, and nothing after August 4, 2025 is included.

Hurt on One of These Sandy Roads

The first money for medical care usually comes from your own policy: Utah requires personal injury protection that pays at least $3,000 in medical expenses regardless of fault (Utah Code § 31A-22-307). Claiming pain and suffering from the driver who caused the crash requires an injury that meets § 31A-22-309, for example a fracture, a permanent impairment or medical expenses over $3,000; that limit does not apply to an uninsured motorist claim. A vehicle that left the scene and was never identified counts as uninsured (§ 31A-22-305(2)(b)). Utah compares fault, so your award is reduced by your share and is available only if the other side's fault is greater (§ 78B-5-818). Lawsuits for injuries generally must be filed within four years (§ 78B-2-307), and a claim that Sandy or UDOT left a road unsafe needs a written notice of claim within one year (§ 63G-7-402). Read more on our Sandy car accident page and in Sandy’s most dangerous intersections, which ranks the signals where pedestrians and cyclists are hit, along with the statewide guides to how fault is proven, PIP claims, uninsured motorist claims and the deadline to sue.

Damages a Sandy Claim Can Include

• Bills and lost income: ambulance and hospital charges, doctor visits and therapy, missed paychecks, and repairs to or replacement of your car.
• Pain and disruption: the physical pain of the injury and the parts of everyday life it interrupts, from work and sleep to family routines.
• Care still to come: future surgery, therapy and medication, reduced earning capacity, and help at home when an injury does not fully heal.

Data Behind This Page

Source records: UDOT's public crash data (Crash_Locations), all crash types, January 1, 2018 through August 4, 2025, the end of the public series. Boundaries: UGRC's municipal boundary map, applied to every year, so crashes in later-annexed areas count as Sandy. Street matching: each crash went to the nearest UGRC Utah Roads segment within 35 meters, favoring the road in the officer's report, a method that agreed with the report's road in about nine of ten crashes statewide. Serious or fatal: reported as fatal or suspected serious injury. Flags are the officer's notes, not fault findings, and comparisons use the seven counties covered by this data. Every city we have ranked this way is listed on our statewide page, Utah’s most dangerous roads.