Roy's Most Dangerous Roads

The ranking below is built from UDOT's crash records for every crash located inside Roy's city limits between January 1, 2018 and August 4, 2025, the last day in the public data. Each crash was matched to the street it was plotted on, favoring the road the investigating officer named. Crashes on I-15 and its ramps are reported separately, and those in parking lots or without a usable location are left out of the street totals. A crash is called serious or fatal when the report lists a death or a suspected serious injury.

That covers 4,708 crashes in all. 829 were on I-15 and its ramps, 60 were on private property, 22 could not be tied to a street, and 3,797 were on Roy's streets. Of those street crashes, 104 were serious or fatal (2.7%) and 14 people died. Some injury, counting possible injuries, was reported in 39.9% of them, one of the five highest rates among the 57 cities measured this way and well above the 32.1% for all street crashes in the seven counties covered (Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, Weber, Summit, Cache and Washington).

Riders Make Up a Large Share of the Badly Hurt

Motorcycles were involved in only 98 of Roy's street crashes, 2.6%. They were involved in 39 of the 104 serious or fatal ones, 37.5%. Across the seven counties, motorcycles account for 21.7% of serious street crashes, and of the 57 cities in this data only one has a higher share than Roy. On 1900 West alone, 16 of the 40 serious or fatal crashes involved a motorcycle.

The serious crashes also skew toward side impacts. Angle collisions were 40.5% of all street crashes (32.6% across the seven counties) but 58 of the 104 serious or fatal ones, 55.8%, against 35.2% regionally. Only two of the 57 cities have a higher share. Rear-end crashes were common, 34.4% of the total, but only 5 were serious.

Nine Roy Streets With 50 or More Crashes

Each street's position follows the number of crashes recorded on it within city limits. A crash where two listed streets meet is counted once, on the street the report names. Only streets with at least 50 crashes are listed, which leaves nine. The cross streets named are the junctions with the most crashes on that street.

• 1900 West (SR-126) — 1,176 crashes, 40 serious or fatal, 7 deaths. Angle collisions make up 49.1% of them. 5600 South (121) and 5400 South (115) are its busiest junctions; the 4800 South junction had 61 crashes, 6 of them serious or fatal. UDOT estimates reach about 42,000 vehicles a day on this road.
• 5600 South (SR-97) — 647 crashes, 16 serious or fatal, 3 deaths. Rear-end crashes lead here at 44.8%. Its 1900 West (88) and 3500 West (76) junctions see the most crashes, and 5 of the 3500 West crashes were serious or fatal.
• 3500 West (SR-108) — 372 crashes, 4 serious or fatal, 1 death. A teen driver was involved in 31.2% of its crashes, and its 5600 South junction accounts for 85 of them.
• 4800 South — 275 crashes, 7 serious or fatal, no deaths. Crashes here fell from 63 in 2018 to 35 in 2024; 3500 West (32) is its busiest junction.
• Midland Drive (3250 West) — 251 crashes, 10 serious or fatal, 1 death. Its 4000 South junction had 63 crashes, 5 of them serious or fatal.
• 6000 South — 141 crashes, 4 serious or fatal, 1 death. Angle collisions are 52.5% of its crashes; 2700 West (24) is the busiest junction.
• 4000 South — 111 crashes and none serious or fatal. Most cluster at 1900 West (35) and Midland Drive (27).
• 5300 South — 71 crashes, none serious or fatal. 38 of them were at 1900 West, and rear-end crashes make up 50.7%.
• 3100 West — 61 crashes, 1 serious or fatal. Angle collisions are 62.3% of the total, with 6000 South (15) and 5600 South (14) the busiest junctions.

Together these nine streets hold 3,105 of Roy's 3,797 street crashes (81.8%), 82 of the 104 serious or fatal crashes and 13 of the 14 deaths. The first two, 1900 West and 5600 South, are state routes and carry 1,823 crashes between them.

Midland Drive Moves Up When Injuries Count

Sorted by serious or fatal crashes, 1900 West (40) and 5600 South (16) still lead, but Midland Drive climbs from fifth to third with 10. Its rate, 4.0%, is the highest of the nine listed streets. 3500 West goes the other way: third by crashes, but only 4 serious or fatal (1.1%). Hinckley Drive (SR-79) had just 45 crashes inside Roy, yet 4 of them were serious, all at 1900 West.

Afternoons, Teen Drivers and Few Speeding Flags

Roy's street crashes bunch up late in the day: 1,604 of them, 42.2%, happened between 3 and 7 p.m., the second-highest share of the 57 cities and above the 33.6% across the seven counties. Sunday had the fewest crashes, 202, against 657 on Fridays. A teen driver appears in 25.9% of crashes (23.8% regionally) and distraction in 12.2% (9.8%).

Officers flagged speed in only 3.6% of Roy's street crashes, the lowest share of the 57 cities, and in 4 of the 104 serious ones. Hit and run was less common than usual too, 6.0% against 8.6%. Serious or fatal crashes were 7 in 2018 and 5 in 2019, then between 13 and 21 a year from 2020 through 2024, while total street crashes fell from 584 to 470. The records do not say why, and changes in how severity was coded may explain part of it.

The Interstate Stretch in Roy

I-15 recorded 815 crashes inside Roy, 16 of them serious or fatal, with 3 deaths. With the ramps, freeway crashes were 17.6% of the city's total, below the 21.4% for all seven counties. A freeway crash in Roy was less likely to be serious than a street crash: 1.96% against 2.74%. These counts leave out unreported collisions, minor property-damage crashes below Utah's reporting threshold, and anything after August 4, 2025.

Coverage and Deadlines After a Roy Crash

Personal injury protection on your own policy pays first, at least $3,000 of medical expenses whoever was at fault (Utah Code § 31A-22-307). To claim pain and other general damages from the at-fault driver, the injury must pass the § 31A-22-309 threshold, which includes a broken bone, permanent impairment or more than $3,000 in medical bills, a limit that does not apply to an uninsured motorist claim. A vehicle that leaves the scene and is never identified counts as uninsured (§ 31A-22-305(2)(b)). Utah reduces your recovery by your own share of fault and bars it unless the others' fault is greater (§ 78B-5-818). Most injury lawsuits must be filed within four years (§ 78B-2-307); a claim that a city or state road was unsafe requires a written notice of claim within one year (§ 63G-7-402). Read more on our Roy car accident page, see Roy's most dangerous intersections for pedestrian and cyclist crashes at signals, and our guides to motorcycle crash claims, left-turn crash fault, proving fault, filing a PIP claim and filing deadlines.

What a Roy Injury Claim Can Include

• Money already spent or lost: ambulance and ER bills, follow-up care, prescriptions, missed wages and the cost of repairing or replacing your car.
• The human cost: pain, sleepless nights and the activities an injury takes away for weeks, months or longer.
• What comes next: surgery or therapy still ahead, reduced ability to earn, and help at home if you do not fully recover.

Where the Roy Figures Come From

Source: UDOT's public crash records (Crash_Locations), all crash types, January 1, 2018 to August 4, 2025. City limits come from UGRC's current municipal boundaries, applied to every year. Each crash was matched to the nearest UGRC Utah Roads segment within 35 meters, preferring the road named in the report; statewide, that match agrees with the reported road about nine times in ten. Serious or fatal means a reported death or suspected serious injury. Flags record what officers noted, not who was at fault. Regional comparisons use all street crashes in the seven counties in this data. Every city we have ranked this way is listed on our statewide page, Utah’s most dangerous roads.