Murray's Most Dangerous Roads

The figures below come from UDOT's crash records for every crash inside Murray's city limits during the period. Each crash was tied to a street by combining the state road map with the road named in the officer's report; where two streets on the list meet, the crash counts once, on the street the report names. Freeway and ramp crashes are grouped separately and private-property crashes are excluded. Serious or fatal means the report listed a death or a suspected serious injury.

Murray recorded 15,369 crashes in all. 6,227 were freeway or ramp crashes, 253 were on private property and 122 could not be matched to a street, leaving 8,767 on the city's surface streets. Of those, 183 were serious or fatal and 24 people died. Some injury was reported in 25.2%, counting possible injuries, which is lower than the 32.1% on non-freeway roads across the seven counties in this data (Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, Weber, Summit, Cache and Washington).

State Street Stands Alone

State Street (US-89) accounts for 25.5% of Murray's surface-street crashes and 48 of its serious or fatal ones. The next busiest road, 900 East, had 637. On State Street the worst spot by far was 4500 South, with 341 crashes logged at that crossing, 11 of them serious or fatal; 5900 South followed with 165.

State Street's crashes are spread through the business day: 879 came between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., slightly more than the 845 between 3 and 7 p.m. Motorcycles were involved in 16 of its 48 serious or fatal crashes, and side-impact collisions in 24.

Murray's Ten Highest-Crash Streets

Streets are listed by the number of crashes recorded on them inside Murray from January 2018 through August 4, 2025, with serious or fatal crashes, deaths, and the cross streets where each road's crashes were most often logged.

• State Street (US-89) — 2,234 crashes, 48 serious or fatal, 6 deaths. 4500 South (341), 5900 South (165) and 5300 South (147) top its junctions.
• 900 East (SR-71) — 637 crashes, 21 serious or fatal, 2 deaths. 5600 South (94) and 6600 South (67) were its busiest junctions; 8 of its serious crashes involved a motorcycle.
• 4500 South (SR-266) — 596 crashes, 10 serious or fatal, 1 death. Same-direction sideswipes (21.8%) and hit and runs (15.1%) were the highest shares on this list; Commerce Drive (92) led its junctions.
• Winchester Street (6400 South) — 444 crashes, 10 serious or fatal, 1 death. Its busiest junction was State Street (75), and 700 West and 725 East each had 3 serious or fatal crashes.
• 5300 South — 412 crashes, 7 serious or fatal, no deaths. 99 were at Commerce Drive, and rear-end collisions made up 44.4%.
• Commerce Drive (300 West) — 346 crashes, 6 serious or fatal, no deaths. 5 of the 6 serious crashes came in 2023, and 5300 South (114) was its busiest junction.
• Vine Street (6100 South) — 311 crashes, 12 serious or fatal, 1 death. Its 3.9% serious-or-fatal share is the highest on this list; State Street (66) and 900 East (40) each had 3 serious crashes.
• 1300 East — 236 crashes, 5 serious or fatal, 2 deaths. 5600 South (51) was its busiest junction.
• Vanwinkle Expressway (SR-152) — 207 crashes, 3 serious or fatal, 1 death. Almost all were at junctions, chiefly 4800 South (68) and 900 East (67).
• 500 West — 201 crashes, 5 serious or fatal, 1 death. 141 of them were at 4500 South, and drivers were flagged for disregarding a signal or sign in 17.4%, the highest share on this list.

These ten streets account for 5,624 of the 8,767 surface-street crashes (64.1%), 127 of the 183 serious or fatal crashes, and 15 of the 24 deaths. The rest are spread over 378 other named streets in the data.

Where a Crash Is Likelier to Be Serious

By serious or fatal crashes, State Street leads with 48, and 900 East is second with 21 despite having fewer than a third of State Street's crashes. Vine Street moves from seventh by crash count to third, with 12. Their shares tell the story: 3.9% of Vine Street's crashes and 3.3% of 900 East's were serious or fatal, against 2.1% on State Street.

Older Drivers, Motorcycles and Hit and Runs

Rear-end collisions are the most common crash on Murray's streets (34.9%), and side impacts the most harmful: 79 of the 183 serious or fatal crashes. Motorcycles were in 2.0% of crashes but 24.6% of the serious or fatal ones. An older driver was involved in 19.6% of crashes, against 14.9% across the seven counties, while teen drivers appeared less often than elsewhere (16.4% versus 23.8%). A driver left the scene in 11.4% of crashes (8.6% across the seven counties).

The trend that deserves attention is severity. Murray's street crashes fell from 1,473 in 2018 to 944 in 2024, but serious or fatal crashes rose from 14 to 30. In 2018 and 2019 combined, 0.85% of crashes were serious or fatal; from 2021 through 2024 it was 2.85%. Across Salt Lake County's non-freeway roads the comparable shares were 1.92% and 2.41%. The records show the change but not its cause, and severity is coded by the responding officer.

The Freeways Through Murray

Both I-15 and I-215 run through Murray, and freeway crashes are 40.5% of the city's total. I-15 had 4,409 crashes, 38 serious or fatal and 6 deaths; rear-end collisions were 50.6% of them. I-215 had 1,759, with 30 serious or fatal and 6 deaths. Property-damage crashes below Utah's reporting threshold are not part of UDOT's data, which ends August 4, 2025.

If a Murray Crash Injured You

Utah's no-fault rules send your first medical bills to your own personal injury protection, at least $3,000 regardless of fault (Utah Code § 31A-22-307). Pursuing the other driver for pain and suffering requires an injury that meets § 31A-22-309, such as a broken bone, a permanent impairment or more than $3,000 in medical expenses; that threshold does not apply to uninsured motorist claims. A driver who flees and is never identified is treated as uninsured under § 31A-22-305(2)(b), so your UM coverage can step in. Your recovery shrinks with your share of fault and is barred unless the others' combined fault is greater (§ 78B-5-818). Most injury suits must be filed within four years (§ 78B-2-307); a claim that a city or state road was unsafe requires written notice within one year (§ 63G-7-402). See our Murray car accident page and, for people on foot or on bikes, Murray’s most dangerous intersections. Motorcycle riders can read our motorcycle claims guide. Also: how fault is proven, PIP claims and filing deadlines.

What You Can Recover

• Bills and lost income: emergency treatment, specialist visits, rehabilitation, missed work, and vehicle repair or replacement.
• Pain and disruption: physical pain, the stress of recovery, and the parts of ordinary life an injury puts on hold.
• Future needs: care your doctors expect you to need later and any lasting loss of earning ability.

Data Sources

UDOT Crash_Locations, all crash types, January 1, 2018 through August 4, 2025, where the public series ends. City limits from UGRC's municipal boundary layer, current version, applied to every year. Crashes were matched to the nearest UGRC Utah Roads segment within 35 meters, favoring the road named in the report; across all the data, about 89% of matches agreed with the report's road. Serious or fatal: fatal or suspected serious injury. Driver flags record what officers noted, not fault. County and seven-county figures use the same method. Every city we have ranked this way is listed on our statewide page, Utah’s most dangerous roads.