Spanish Fork's Most Dangerous Roads

We assigned every crash in UDOT's public records that falls inside Spanish Fork's present city limits to the street it occurred on, using the state's road map and the road the investigating officer wrote down. Crashes on I-15 and its ramps are reported in their own section, and crashes in parking lots and on other private property are kept out of the street totals. A crash is serious or fatal here when the report lists a death or a suspected serious injury.

In all, UDOT recorded 4,982 crashes in Spanish Fork over the period. Taking out 884 on the freeway and its ramps, 52 on private property and 28 that could not be tied to a street leaves 4,018 street crashes. 114 of them were serious or fatal, 2.8%, and 18 people died. Across the seven counties whose records are used here (Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, Weber, Summit, Cache and Washington), 2.6% of street crashes were serious or fatal. Counting possible injuries, someone was hurt in 34.4% of Spanish Fork's street crashes.

Highway 6: One Crash in Seven, Half the Deaths

US-6 recorded 566 crashes inside the city, behind Main Street's 912. It recorded 29 serious or fatal crashes, more than any other street, and 9 deaths. 5.1% of its crashes were serious or fatal, against 1.9% on Main Street. Its junctions with Expressway Lane (101 crashes, 5 serious or fatal), Center Street (75, 4) and Spanish Fork Parkway (39, 3) together account for 12 of its serious or fatal crashes.

The traffic on US-6 also looks different. A commercial vehicle was involved in 75 of its crashes (13.3%, against 5.5% citywide), and in 8 of its serious or fatal ones. 25.6% of its crashes happened after dark, compared with 19.4% on the city's streets overall, and Saturdays and Sundays held 27.6% of them, against 20.4%. UDOT's estimates reach about 32,000 vehicles a day on this stretch. Its yearly count went from 67 in 2018 to 90 in 2024.

Spanish Fork's Ten Highest-Crash Streets

Ranked by the number of crashes UDOT placed on each street inside city limits, January 2018 through August 4, 2025. Canyon Road and Expressway Lane tie at 94 and are listed alphabetically. The cross streets named are where each street's own crashes gather most.

• Main Street (SR-156) — 912 crashes, 17 serious or fatal, 1 death. Rear-end collisions are 46.5% of the total, and a teen driver was involved in 35.4%. Its busiest junctions are 1000 North (77), 700 North (70) and 300 South (58).
• Highway 6 (US-6) — 566 crashes, 29 serious or fatal, 9 deaths. The city's deadliest street by a wide margin; Expressway Lane (101) and Canyon Creek Parkway (73) are among its busiest junctions.
• 400 North (SR-147) — 298 crashes, 9 serious or fatal, no deaths. 54.4% were side impacts, and cyclists were involved in 4 of its 9 serious or fatal crashes. 800 East (51) is its busiest junction.
• Center Street — 182 crashes, 6 serious or fatal, 2 deaths. 63.2% were side impacts; Main Street (40) is where they gather most.
• 1000 North — 154 crashes, 3 serious or fatal, 1 death. Officers flagged a driver for disregarding a signal or sign in 42 of them, 27.3%, the highest share among these ten. 200 East (40) and 400 East (36) are its busiest junctions.
• Canyon Creek Parkway — 124 crashes, 2 serious or fatal, no deaths. Kirby Lane (24) and Commerce Way (19) see the most.
• 800 North — 117 crashes, 1 serious or fatal, no deaths. 77.8% were side impacts, the highest share among these ten; 400 East and Main Street had 20 each.
• Spanish Fork Parkway — 104 crashes, none serious or fatal. A teen driver was involved in 56 of them. Its busiest junction is US-6 (17).
• Canyon Road (SR-198) — 94 crashes, 3 serious or fatal, no deaths. 47.9% were rear-end collisions; motorcyclists were in 2 of its serious or fatal crashes.
• Expressway Lane — 94 crashes, 3 serious or fatal, no deaths. Its crashes concentrate at 800 North (39, 2 serious or fatal) and US-6 (22).

These ten streets account for 2,645 crashes, 65.8% of the city's street total, along with 73 of the 114 serious or fatal crashes and 13 of the 18 deaths. Main Street and US-6 alone hold 36.8% of the crashes. Below the first two, no street reached 300 crashes; the next eight together recorded 1,167.

Serious Crashes Follow a Different Ranking

Ordered by serious or fatal crashes, US-6 leads with 29, Main Street follows with 17 and 400 North has 9. Two smaller streets move up: 300 South, with 4 serious or fatal crashes out of 68, and Highway 164 (1900 South), with 4 out of 38, 1 of them fatal. Center Street recorded 2 deaths in 182 crashes. Spanish Fork Parkway, eighth by crash count, had none that were serious or fatal.

Side Impacts and Young Drivers

Side-impact crashes make up 42.6% of Spanish Fork's street crashes, against 32.6% across the seven counties; among the 57 cities with enough data for a page like this, only three have a higher share. Rear-end crashes are 28.2%. 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 of the 114 serious or fatal crashes, and side impacts 42. Motorcyclists were in 22 of the serious or fatal crashes.

Officers recorded a teen driver in 34.4% of street crashes, against 23.8% across the seven counties. A driver left the scene in 4.5%, about half the 8.6% across the seven counties. Crash counts were steady at 491, 474 and 462 from 2018 through 2020, then rose to 597 in 2021 and have stayed between 538 and 609 a year since. Serious or fatal crashes swing widely, from 5 in 2019 to 24 in 2022.

I-15's Share, Kept Separate

Crashes on I-15 and its ramps are not ranked with the streets. They total 884 inside Spanish Fork, 17.7% of every crash in the city. I-15 itself had 870, with 17 serious or fatal and 1 death, against 18 deaths on the city's streets. The data leaves out crashes below Utah's property-damage reporting threshold, and nothing after August 4, 2025, is included.

Claims After a Spanish Fork Crash

In Utah your own personal injury protection pays first, at least $3,000 toward medical bills regardless of fault (Utah Code § 31A-22-307). Going after the other driver for pain and suffering requires an injury that clears § 31A-22-309: a broken bone, permanent impairment or disfigurement, or more than $3,000 in medical expenses, among others; uninsured motorist claims are exempt from that threshold. If the driver who hit you is never identified, the vehicle counts as uninsured (§ 31A-22-305(2)(b)). Your recovery is reduced by your share of fault and barred unless the other parties' combined fault is greater than yours (§ 78B-5-818). Most injury suits must be filed within four years (§ 78B-2-307), but a claim that a city or state road was unsafe requires a written notice of claim within one year (§ 63G-7-402). See our Spanish Fork car accident, motorcycle accident and personal injury pages, the city's most dangerous intersections for people on foot and on bikes, and the statewide guides on how fault is proven, filing a PIP claim and the deadline to sue.

What a Spanish Fork Claim Can Recover

• Expenses you can document: the ambulance and hospital, follow-up care and therapy, lost pay, and repair or replacement of your vehicle.
• Losses without a receipt: pain, sleepless nights, and the drives and outings you now avoid.
• Costs still to come: future treatment, reduced ability to earn, and help with daily tasks if the injury lingers.

About These Figures

Crash records: UDOT's public Crash_Locations data, every crash type, January 1, 2018 through August 4, 2025, when the published series stops. City limits: the current UGRC municipal boundary, applied to every year. Street assignment: the nearest UGRC Utah Roads segment within 35 meters, favoring the road the officer named; that choice matched the officer's road for about 89% of crashes across the data. A crash where two ranked streets meet is counted on one of them only. Serious or fatal means a reported death or suspected serious injury. Flags such as teen driver or hit and run record what the officer noted, not who was at fault. Comparisons are to the seven counties in the data. Every city we have ranked this way is listed on our statewide page, Utah’s most dangerous roads.