Park City's Most Dangerous Roads

UDOT's crash records for Park City were sorted by the road each crash happened on, using the state road map and the road the officer named when the two disagreed. Freeway-style ramps are counted separately, crashes in private lots are not ranked, and a crash counts as serious or fatal when the report lists a death or a suspected serious injury.

There were 2,322 crashes inside city limits. Of those, 90 were on interchange ramps, 34 were on private property and 14 could not be matched to a road, leaving 2,184. Of these, 44 were serious or fatal (2.0%, against 2.6% regionally), and 5 people died. Someone was reported hurt, counting possible injuries, in 21.2%, the second-lowest share of the 57 cities.

Winter Writes Park City's Crash Record

Over the complete years 2018 through 2024, January had 337 crashes and April had 68. December (249), February (232) and March (217) follow January. Snow or sleet was falling in 479 crashes (21.9%), also the highest share of the 57, and 27.9% happened in the dark, third-highest.

Officers flagged speed in 397 crashes, 18.2%, the highest rate of any of the 57 cities (8.4% regionally). A vehicle left the roadway in 17.7%, third-highest. The roads with the most snow-surface crashes were Park Avenue (45 of 264) and Marsac Avenue (39 of 106).

The Eight Busiest Crash Roads in Park City

Eight roads had at least 50 crashes, ranked here by count. Empire Avenue was next with 42. A crash where two listed roads meet counts once, on the road the officer named.

• Kearns Boulevard (SR-248) — 312 crashes, 5 serious or fatal, 1 death. Rear-end crashes were 41.0%. Busiest junctions: Bonanza Drive (40), Snow Creek Drive (38) and Sidewinder Drive (31).
• Park Avenue — 264 crashes, 8 serious or fatal, 1 death. A transit vehicle was involved in 32 and a pedestrian in 8, both the most on this list.
• Highway 248 (SR-248) — 246 crashes, 10 serious or fatal, 1 death. Busiest junctions: Highway 40 (67) and Round Valley Drive (26). A wild animal was involved in 53.
• Deer Valley Drive (SR-224) — 145 crashes, 5 serious, no deaths. A commercial vehicle was involved in 28 (19.3%), the highest share on this list.
• Highway 224 (SR-224) — 142 crashes, 3 serious. A wild animal was involved in 51 (35.9%), the highest share on this list, and single-vehicle crashes were 45.8%.
• Marsac Avenue (SR-224) — 106 crashes, 4 serious or fatal, 1 death. Speed was flagged in 38 (35.8%) and 39 happened on snow, ice or slush, the highest shares of both on this list.
• Bonanza Drive — 77 crashes, none serious. Its busiest junctions are Kearns Boulevard (27) and Deer Valley Drive (15).
• Main Street — 68 crashes, 2 serious. A parked vehicle was involved in 35, and the driver left the scene in 18 (26.5%), the highest hit-and-run share on this list.

The eight roads account for 1,360 of the 2,184 street crashes (62.3%), 37 of the 44 serious or fatal crashes and 4 of the 5 deaths; the fifth death was on Empire Avenue. SR-248 appears under two names in the state road map, Kearns Boulevard and Highway 248, and together they had 558 crashes. SR-224 appears under three, Deer Valley Drive, Highway 224 and Marsac Avenue, with 393 crashes between them.

Highway 248 and Its Head-On Crashes

By serious or fatal crashes, Highway 248 leads with 10, ahead of Park Avenue (8) and Kearns Boulevard and Deer Valley Drive (5 each). On Highway 248, 4 of the 10 serious crashes were head-on collisions, and 3 happened at Round Valley Drive. Park City as a whole had 66 head-on crashes, 3.0% of the total, and 6 of them were serious or fatal.

Trucks, Buses and Wildlife

Three more flags put Park City at the top of the 57 cities. A commercial vehicle was involved in 14.1% of crashes (6.4% regionally), a transit vehicle in 6.8% (0.8%), and a wild animal in 216 crashes, 9.9% (2.1%). None of the wildlife crashes was serious or fatal. Sundays carried 10.5% of crashes, second-highest of the 57.

Some flags are unusually rare here. A teen driver was involved in 12.7% of crashes, distraction was flagged in 6.3%, and a driver who ignored a signal or sign in 3.0%; each is the second-lowest rate of the 57 cities. Side-impact crashes were 20.9% of the total, also second-lowest.

US-40 and Its Interchange Ramps

The US-40 interchange ramps had 87 crashes inside the city, none serious. The stretch of US-40 inside city limits is coded as an expressway, so its 219 crashes (1 serious) are in the street total above but not ranked as a road. The records list 2 serious crashes in 2018 and none in 2019, then 12 in 2020, a jump this page treats as a possible gap in the records rather than a trend. Property-damage crashes below Utah's reporting threshold are not in the data, and each crash counts on one road.

Park City Crash Claims and Utah Law

Personal injury protection on your own auto policy pays first: at least $3,000 in medical expenses, whoever caused the crash (Utah Code § 31A-22-307). A suit against the other driver for pain and other general damages needs an injury past the § 31A-22-309 threshold, such as a fracture, permanent impairment or more than $3,000 in medical bills, and that threshold does not limit an uninsured motorist claim. If the driver who hit you is never identified, Utah treats the vehicle as uninsured (§ 31A-22-305(2)(b)). Your recovery is reduced by your own share of fault and allowed only if the others' combined fault is greater (§ 78B-5-818). Most injury lawsuits must be filed within four years (§ 78B-2-307); a claim that a public road was poorly maintained needs a written notice of claim within one year (§ 63G-7-402). Our Park City car accident and Park City personal injury pages cover local claims, and our posts explain winter crash claims, black ice liability, crashes with out-of-state drivers and rental car claims. The guides cover proving fault, PIP claims and filing deadlines.

Recoverable Harm

• Medical and work: emergency care, specialists, rehabilitation and the income you lose while healing.
• Quality of life: pain, limits on skiing, biking or work you used to do, and the stress that follows a serious crash.
• Ahead: treatment you will still need and the repair or replacement of your vehicle.

Data Trail for This Page

Source: UDOT Crash_Locations records, January 1, 2018 through August 4, 2025, all crash types. Boundary: UGRC's current Park City limits, applied to every year. Roads: UGRC Utah Roads, crashes matched within 35 meters, with the officer's named road preferred. Serious or fatal: Fatal or Suspected Serious Injury. Weather, light and road-surface codes come from the crash reports. Regional comparisons use non-freeway crashes in Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, Weber, Summit, Cache and Washington counties, and months use complete years 2018 through 2024. Every city we have ranked this way is listed on our statewide page, Utah’s most dangerous roads.