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A collision with a semi, a dump truck or a delivery van on I-15, State Street or North County Boulevard is a different kind of claim from an ordinary car crash. Free case review. You pay nothing up front, and no attorney fees unless we win.
Pleasant Grove runs from a short stretch of I-15 on its west side up to the foot of Mount Timpanogos, and the heavy vehicles moving through it are usually doing one of three jobs: running the interstate, serving the retail and new construction on the west side, or working the older neighborhoods to the east. Each setting produces its own kind of collision, and each changes who has to answer for it. UDOT's crash counts for every city street are collected on our Pleasant Grove's most dangerous roads page.
Only a short piece of the interstate falls inside city limits. Of the 3,710 crashes UDOT recorded in Pleasant Grove from January 2018 through August 4, 2025, 82 were on I-15 or its ramps. Tractor-trailers leaving the freeway for Pleasant Grove Boulevard meet commuters stacked up toward the on-ramps. The Utah Highway Patrol generally works freeway crashes.
The city's main road is a state highway, five lanes wide, with a railroad overpass and a center turn lane where a median might otherwise be. Box trucks and semis turning into businesses have to cross several lanes in one move. The street logged 697 crashes in the same period, 23 of them serious or fatal, more serious crashes than any other street in Pleasant Grove.
North County Boulevard (2000 West, SR-129) runs along the city's west side, and the city's trail list says portions of the path beside it will be built as land develops. Construction brings gravel trucks, concrete mixers and equipment trailers pulling slowly into traffic that is moving much faster. Where it meets Pleasant Grove Boulevard, a junction UDOT rebuilt with more turn lanes and new signals, the two roads account for 179 crashes between them.
SR-114 carries the names Geneva Road and Main Street and crosses State Street at a signal. UDOT's current data lists a 50 mph limit on SR-114 at that signal and at 700 South, so heavy vehicles reach the older part of town carrying more speed than the nearby streets suggest. A loaded truck needs far more room to stop than a car, and the difference shows up at intersections.
Toward Canyon Road and the Battle Creek and Grove Creek trailheads, streets narrow, shoulders disappear and cars park on both sides. Garbage trucks, moving vans, landscaping rigs and delivery drivers back up and turn there with little room, and the people hurt are often walking or riding. A truck that reverses without checking behind it is a straightforward negligence claim against the driver and usually the company the driver works for.
Who investigates, and when a government claim applies
Pleasant Grove Police, at 108 South 100 East, handle crashes on city streets, and the Utah Highway Patrol usually takes I-15. A citation from a city crash goes to the Pleasant Grove Justice Court at 70 South 100 East, which deals only with the ticket. If a city truck, a UTA bus, a UDOT work zone or a Utah County vehicle is involved, the Governmental Immunity Act bars the claim unless a written notice of claim is filed within one year (Utah Code § 63G-7-402); for a claim against the city, the notice goes to the city clerk (§ 63G-7-401).
Personal injury protection on your own auto policy pays before anyone decides fault. Utah sets the floor at $3,000 of medical treatment, and it replaces 85% of lost gross income, capped at $250 weekly, for as long as 52 weeks (Utah Code § 31A-22-307). Our Utah no-fault explainer covers how to open that claim.
That floor rarely survives an ambulance ride and the first scans. To claim pain and suffering from the trucking company, Utah Code § 31A-22-309 requires at least one of the following:
Meet any one of them and the carrier's liability coverage answers for the whole loss, future care and lost earning capacity included. A small local hauler insured at Utah's minimum, $30,000 per person for policies issued or renewed since January 1, 2025 (§ 31A-22-304), may not have enough; your own underinsured motorist coverage can add to it. An uninsured motorist claim is not subject to the threshold at all.
A Utah defendant pays only its own share of fault, and you collect only from defendants whose combined fault is greater than yours; your percentage comes off the award (Utah Code § 78B-5-818). If you are found 50% at fault, you recover nothing.
The trucking insurer's arguments are predictable: you cut in front of a semi slowing for the Pleasant Grove Boulevard ramps, you lingered in a blind spot, or you pulled out of a State Street business into a truck you should have seen. The answers usually come from the truck itself, meaning its electronic logging device, engine data and any forward-facing camera, along with store video and the driver's post-crash test results.
Deadlines
Most injury lawsuits from a vehicle crash must be filed within four years (§ 78B-2-307), and a wrongful death action within two (§ 78B-2-304). Notice to UDOT, UTA, Utah County or the city is due within one year. Our statute of limitations guide lists the exceptions.
After a crash that kills someone, or one in which the truck driver is cited and someone needs treatment away from the scene or a vehicle is towed, the carrier must test its driver. An alcohol test not given within eight hours is abandoned, and a drug test within 32 (49 CFR 382.303). Whether those tests happened, and when, is one of the first questions to ask.
A property-carrying driver may drive up to 11 hours within a 14-hour window that opens after 10 hours off duty, needs a 30-minute break once 8 hours of driving have built up, and may not drive after 60 on-duty hours in seven days, or 70 in eight, depending on the carrier's schedule (49 CFR 395.3). Fatigue on the I-15 corridor is a familiar story, and the logs show whether the limits were broken.
Carriers must keep each driver's records of duty status and supporting documents for at least six months (49 CFR 395.8(k)). That is a real window, but it closes, and camera video and other data outside the required records may be kept for less time. A written preservation demand sent early puts the carrier on notice to hold all of it.
A for-hire interstate carrier hauling ordinary freight in a vehicle rated 10,001 pounds or more must carry at least $750,000 in financial responsibility; oil and many hazardous materials raise the minimum to $1,000,000, and the most dangerous bulk loads to $5,000,000 (49 CFR 387.9). Our guide to Utah truck accident claims explains how those policies are reached.
A driver on the job usually makes the employer answerable for the crash as well, and a carrier can be responsible in its own right for hiring an unqualified driver, skipping maintenance or setting a schedule that could not be met legally. Identifying every responsible company early keeps the full amount of coverage in reach.
If a lawsuit becomes necessary, it is filed in the Fourth Judicial District Court for Utah County, which sits at 137 North Freedom Boulevard in Provo and also holds court at 75 East 80 North in American Fork. Most truck claims resolve before trial, but the evidence decides what they are worth, so the preservation letter to the carrier should go out in the first days. Read more on our Pleasant Grove car accident and Pleasant Grove personal injury pages, or call (801) 921-5134. Free consultation. No attorney fees unless we win. Hablamos Español.
General information about Utah and federal trucking rules for people hurt in Pleasant Grove, not legal advice. Every claim depends on its facts, and no earlier result promises a later one.