Eagle Mountain's Most Dangerous Roads

UDOT's public crash records were matched to Eagle Mountain's city limits and then to individual roads: the street named in the officer's report when it was close by, otherwise the nearest street on the state's road map. Crashes in private lots and the few with no matching road are counted apart. Serious or fatal covers deaths and suspected serious injuries.

The records hold 1,915 crashes in Eagle Mountain: 1,878 on the roads ranked here, 33 on private property and 4 on no mapped road. None were on a freeway. 65 of the road crashes were serious or fatal (3.5%), eighth-highest of 57 cities and above the 2.6% for non-freeway roads across the seven counties covered (Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, Weber, Summit, Cache and Washington). 7 fatal crashes killed 8 people.

Head-On Crashes on Cory B. Wride Highway

Head-on collisions were 11 of Eagle Mountain's 65 serious or fatal crashes (16.9%), the second-highest share of the 57 cities and more than twice the seven-county 6.9%. Cory B. Wride Memorial Highway accounts for 8 of them. It recorded 311 crashes in all, 6.8% of them serious or fatal, and 3 deaths in 2 fatal crashes.

The highway's reports flagged an animal in 36 crashes (11.6%) and darkness in 81. UDOT estimates reach about 28,000 vehicles a day on it. Its busiest junctions were Mt Airey Drive (51) and Ranches Parkway (34).

Pony Express Leads the Count

Five Eagle Mountain roads recorded at least 50 crashes from January 2018 through August 4, 2025. They are ranked by crashes; a crash where two of them meet is counted once, on the road named in the report.

• Pony Express Parkway (8000 North) — 440 crashes, 12 serious or fatal, no deaths. 175 were rear-end crashes. Ranches Parkway (54) and Porters Crossing Parkway (49) were its busiest junctions. Yearly crashes went from 29 in 2018 to 92 in 2024.
• Cory B. Wride Memorial Highway (SR-73) — 311 crashes, 21 serious or fatal, 3 deaths. Mustang Way had 2 serious crashes among its 18.
• Ranches Parkway — 185 crashes, 3 serious, no deaths. Angle crashes led (71); 59 were at Pony Express Parkway and 43 at SR-73.
• Eagle Mountain Boulevard (4000 North) — 116 crashes, 5 serious or fatal, 1 death. A vehicle left the road in 39 of them, and 15 happened on snow, ice or slush.
• Aviator Avenue — 57 crashes, 1 serious, no deaths. A teen driver was involved in 49 of the 57.

The five hold 1,109 of the city's road crashes (59.1%), 42 of the 65 serious or fatal ones and 4 of the 8 deaths. Porters Crossing Parkway, just under the cutoff at 45 crashes, had 1 death.

Crashes More Than Doubled

Eagle Mountain's road crashes rose from 156 in 2018 to 373 in 2024, the third-largest increase of the 57 cities, while non-freeway crashes across the seven counties fell from 41,657 to 37,964. Serious or fatal crashes went from 3 in 2018 to a high of 16 in 2023 and 7 in 2024. The counts track a city that added roads and residents quickly; the records themselves do not measure traffic growth.

Wildlife, Snow and Parked Cars

An animal was flagged in 70 road crashes (3.7%) and snow, ice or slush in 141 (7.5%), both seventh-highest of the 57 cities. Crashes into parked vehicles were 11.8%, third-highest. Older drivers were involved in only 5.8%, the lowest share of any of the 57, while a teen driver appeared in 34.0%.

Among the serious or fatal crashes, 35 were in UDOT's single-vehicle or not-applicable group, which includes a vehicle striking a pedestrian or leaving the road; pedestrians were involved in 11 and bicyclists in 5. Drivers fled the scene in 151 crashes, none of them serious. October had the most crashes of any month across 2018 to 2024 (173). The morning commute stands out: 352 crashes (18.7%) happened between 6 and 9 a.m., the second-highest share of the 57 cities, against 12.6% regionally.

What This Count Leaves Out

No interstate or freeway-ramp crash was recorded inside Eagle Mountain's limits in this data, so every ranked crash is on a surface road. Property-damage crashes below Utah's reporting threshold are not in UDOT's records, and a crash at the junction of two ranked roads is counted on only one of them.

Eagle Mountain Crash Claims: Coverage First

The first payer is usually your own personal injury protection, at least $3,000 in medical expenses no matter who was at fault (Utah Code § 31A-22-307). Pain and other general damages from the at-fault driver require an injury that meets § 31A-22-309, such as a fracture, a permanent impairment or more than $3,000 in medical bills; that threshold does not apply to an uninsured motorist claim. When a hit-and-run driver is never identified, Utah treats the vehicle as uninsured (§ 31A-22-305(2)(b)). Your share of fault reduces your recovery, and you recover only if the others' combined fault is greater (§ 78B-5-818). Most injury suits have a four-year deadline (§ 78B-2-307), but a claim against a city or UDOT about a road's condition needs written notice within one year (§ 63G-7-402). See our Eagle Mountain car accident and personal injury pages, our post on winter crash claims, and our guides to proving fault, filing for PIP and deadlines.

The Costs a Claim Here Can Reach

• Treatment and pay: emergency care, specialists, physical therapy and wages lost while you recover.
• Quality of life: pain, sleep, and the commute, sports or family routines an injury cuts short.
• Later on: future care, any lasting loss of earning capacity and the cost of your vehicle.

Eagle Mountain's Numbers, Explained

Records: UDOT Crash_Locations, January 1, 2018 through August 4, 2025, the last date the public feed carries. Limits: UGRC's current municipal boundaries, applied to all years, so crashes on land annexed later still count here. Roads: UGRC's Utah Roads, matched within 35 meters with the reported road preferred. Serious or fatal: Fatal or Suspected Serious Injury. Comparisons use non-freeway crashes in the seven counties above and rank the 57 cities with enough crashes to rank. Every city we have ranked this way is listed on our statewide page, Utah’s most dangerous roads.