Layton's Most Dangerous Roads

Each crash in UDOT's records that happened inside Layton city limits between January 1, 2018 and August 4, 2025 was assigned to one street, using the state's road map together with the road the officer wrote in the report. I-15, freeway ramps and private parking lots are tallied apart from the street ranking. A crash is called serious or fatal here when someone was killed or the report coded a suspected serious injury.

Layton's total is 9,723 crashes. Take away 2,316 on I-15 and its ramps, 164 in private lots and 56 that could not be tied to a street, and 7,187 remain on city streets. 193 of those were serious or fatal (2.7%), a little above the 2.6% across the seven counties in this data (Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, Weber, Summit, Cache and Washington), and 23 people died. Some injury, counting possible injuries, appears in 35.3% of Layton's street crashes.

Third in Crashes, First in Deaths

Main Street's 36 serious or fatal crashes are 4.2% of its total, almost twice the share on Hill Field Road (2.2%). Side-impact crashes make up 53.7% of Main Street's collisions. People on foot were involved in 28 of them, and 9 of those were serious or fatal. The junction with Hill Field Road accounts for 202 of Main Street's crashes and 6 of its serious ones; Antelope Drive (89 crashes, 4 serious) and 500 North (41, 4 serious) follow.

Highway 193 (3000 North) is the other outlier. It ranks fifth by volume with 462 crashes, but 26 were serious or fatal, a 5.6% share that is the highest among Layton's fifteen busiest streets. 11 of those serious crashes came in 2021 alone. Its Fairfield Road junction had 72 crashes and 5 serious ones.

Layton Streets by Number of Crashes

Streets are ordered by the crashes recorded on them inside city limits. When a crash happens where two listed streets meet, it is counted once, on the street the officer named. The cross streets shown are where each street's crashes were most concentrated.

• Hill Field Road (SR-232) — 1,254 crashes, 27 serious or fatal, 3 deaths. Its Main Street junction leads with 188 crashes, then Antelope Drive (90) and Gordon Avenue (82). Side impacts are 48.0% of the total.
• Antelope Drive (2000 North) — 1,144 crashes, 26 serious or fatal, 4 deaths. The busiest junctions are 1400 West (139), Main Street (137) and 1700 West (107), and motorcycles were part of 6 of its serious crashes.
• Main Street (SR-126) — 848 crashes, 36 serious or fatal, 9 deaths, the most of any Layton street. An older driver was flagged in 197 of its crashes and 11 of the serious ones.
• Highway 89 (US-89) — 463 crashes, 7 serious or fatal, 2 deaths. Unlike the city's other streets, 51.6% of its crashes fall in UDOT's single-vehicle or not-applicable group, 121 were flagged as speed related, and 157 happened after dark. Hobbs Creek Drive (146) is its busiest junction.
• Highway 193 (3000 North) — 462 crashes, 26 serious or fatal, 3 deaths. Rear-end crashes are 48.7% of the total, yet 17 of the 26 serious crashes were side impacts.
• Gentile Street — 444 crashes, 15 serious or fatal, no deaths. A teen driver was involved in 182 of them (41.0%), the highest share on this list, and Fort Lane (44) is its busiest junction.
• Gordon Avenue (1000 North) — 358 crashes, 9 serious or fatal, 1 death. A bicycle was involved in 14 of its crashes (3.9%), the highest share on this list; Hill Field Road (36) and 2200 West (32) lead its junctions.
• Fort Lane (425 East) — 325 crashes, 7 serious or fatal, no deaths. Its Gentile Street junction had 54 crashes, and 3 of the 7 serious crashes involved a motorcycle.
• Fairfield Road (850 East) — 175 crashes, 4 serious or fatal, no deaths. Gentile Street (23) and Church Street (21) are its busiest crossings, and its crashes fell from 37 in 2018 to 21 in 2024.
• Layton Parkway — 118 crashes, 3 serious or fatal, no deaths. Flint Street (28) is its busiest junction, and a disregarded signal or sign was flagged in 22 of its crashes.

These ten streets account for 5,591 of Layton's 7,187 street crashes (77.8%), 160 of the 193 serious or fatal crashes (82.9%) and 22 of the 23 deaths. Three state routes, Hill Field Road, Main Street and Highway 193, hold 89 of those serious crashes between them.

The Serious-Crash Leaderboard

Count only serious or fatal crashes and Main Street moves to the top with 36, ahead of Hill Field Road (27). Antelope Drive and Highway 193 tie at 26, so Highway 193 climbs from fifth to a share of third. Gentile Street follows with 15, though no one died there, and Highway 89, fourth by volume, drops to a tie for seventh with 7.

Broadside Collisions Lead the Count

Side-impact collisions are Layton's most common street crash, 38.5% against 32.6% across the seven counties, and they make up 89 of the 193 serious or fatal crashes (46.1%). Rear-end crashes are 28.9% of the total but only 20 of the serious ones. The group UDOT reports as single-vehicle or not applicable, which includes a vehicle hitting a pedestrian, a cyclist or a fixed object, holds 70 serious crashes. Pedestrians were part of 149 crashes and 30 serious ones; motorcycles, 136 and 36.

Officers flagged a disregarded signal or stop sign in 10.7% of Layton's street crashes, against 7.8% across the seven counties, and in 30 of the serious ones. A teen driver appears in 28.5% (23.8% across the seven counties). Hit-and-runs are comparatively rare: 4.2%, about half the 8.6% seen across the region. Weekdays carry the load; Sunday had 469 street crashes over the period against 1,215 on Tuesdays.

Freeway Crashes Inside Layton

I-15 and its ramps add 2,316 crashes, 23.8% of everything recorded in the city. I-15 itself had 2,207, with 23 serious or fatal and 2 deaths, and the US-89 interchange ramps another 92. None of that is in the street ranking. The records also leave things out: property-damage crashes below Utah's reporting threshold, anything after August 4, 2025, and any crash an officer did not report.

Who Pays After a Layton Collision

Medical bills are usually paid first by your own personal injury protection, at least $3,000 regardless of fault (Utah Code § 31A-22-307). To claim pain and other general damages from the at-fault driver, the injury has to clear the threshold in § 31A-22-309, such as a broken bone, permanent impairment or more than $3,000 in medical costs, a hurdle that does not apply to an uninsured motorist claim. A driver who flees and is never found is treated as uninsured (§ 31A-22-305(2)(b)). Recovery shrinks by your own percentage of fault and is barred unless the other side's share is greater (§ 78B-5-818). Most injury suits have a four-year deadline (§ 78B-2-307), but a claim that Layton or UDOT left a road or signal unsafe needs a written notice of claim within one year (§ 63G-7-402). Read more on our Layton car accident and Layton personal injury pages, see Layton's most dangerous intersections for pedestrian and cyclist crashes at signals, and our guides to fault in red-light crashes, how fault is proven, filing a PIP claim and filing deadlines.

Losses a Layton Claim Can Reach

• Money already spent or lost: emergency care, imaging, physical therapy, prescriptions, the wages you missed and the cost of fixing or replacing the vehicle.
• The injury itself: pain, sleepless nights, and the work, sports and family time a collision takes away for weeks or longer.
• What lies ahead: later surgery or treatment, a reduced ability to earn, and help at home if recovery is incomplete.

How the Crashes Were Counted

Records: UDOT's public crash data (Crash_Locations), every crash type, January 1, 2018 to August 4, 2025, where the public series stops. City limits: UGRC's current municipal boundaries, used for all years. Street assignment: the closest segment in UGRC's Utah Roads map within 35 meters, preferring the road named in the report; statewide that match agrees with the officer's road in about nine crashes of every ten. Serious or fatal: coded as fatal or suspected serious injury. Report flags reflect what officers noted, not findings of fault, and all comparisons refer to the seven counties in this data. Every city we have ranked this way is listed on our statewide page, Utah’s most dangerous roads.