Holladay's Most Dangerous Intersections for Pedestrians and Cyclists

How the count was built: UDOT keeps a pedestrian and bicycle safety model for signalized intersections, and 21 of its signals are in Holladay. We took every crash in UDOT's records from January 1, 2018 to August 4, 2025 that involved a pedestrian or a bicyclist and tied it to the closest signal in that model, provided the crash was no more than 250 feet away, which is how the Highway Safety Manual defines an intersection crash. Crashes coded Fatal or Suspected Serious Injury are the ones this page calls serious or fatal.

Holladay's total is 36 crashes: 20 with a bicyclist and 16 with a pedestrian, and no crash involved both. Six of the 16 pedestrian crashes were serious or fatal, 37.5%. Three of the 20 bicycle crashes were, 15.0%. Statewide, with the same method across 1,263 signals, the shares are 16.7% and 8.9%. Sixteen of the 21 signals logged at least one crash; five logged none.

More Riders Than Walkers in the Record

Statewide, pedestrian crashes at signals outnumber bicycle crashes by almost two to one: 2,105 against 1,115. Holladay turns that around, with 20 bicycle crashes to 16 pedestrian ones. Lehi and Draper come out even, and every other city with at least 20 such crashes has more pedestrian crashes than bicycle crashes. UDOT's model points the same way. It estimates about 65 riders a day at Wasatch Boulevard and 6200 South, 44 at Cottonwood Lane and Holladay Boulevard, and 43 at Murray-Holladay Road and Holladay Boulevard: three of the eight highest rider estimates among the 1,209 signals in the 52 cities we have counted.

Serious injuries run the other direction. Holladay's 9 serious or fatal crashes are a quarter of its total, and 6 of them involved pedestrians. Among cities with at least 10 pedestrian crashes, Holladay's 37.5% pedestrian share is the highest; Payson is next at 33.3%. The counts are small enough that one crash more or less moves that share by over 6 points, so treat it as a warning sign rather than a ranking.

Holladay's Top Ten by Combined Crashes

Because bicycle crashes outnumber pedestrian crashes here, this list ranks signals by both together, from January 2018 through August 4, 2025. Ties go to the signal with more serious or fatal crashes, then to the one with more pedestrian crashes, then north to south. Walker, rider and vehicle figures are estimates from UDOT's model, not counts.

• Murray-Holladay Road (4680 South) & Holladay Boulevard (2320 East) — 5 crashes: 3 bicycle and 2 pedestrian, none serious or fatal. The model puts about 327 people on foot and 43 on bikes through this signal on a typical day, the highest walking estimate in Holladay.
• 3900 South & 2300 East — 4 crashes, 2 pedestrian and 2 bicycle, none serious or fatal. Estimated foot traffic is about 296 a day, second in the city, and the model lists three bus stops nearby.
• 3900 South & Highland Drive (1650 East) — 3 pedestrian crashes, 2 of them serious or fatal, and no bicycle crashes. It is the only Holladay signal with recorded crashes that UDOT's model flags as unlit.
• 4500 South (SR-266) & Highland Drive — 2 pedestrian crashes and 1 bicycle crash, with one of each serious or fatal. The busier of its two roads carries about 20,500 vehicles a day.
• Murray-Holladay Road (4800 South) & 1300 East — 1 pedestrian crash, serious or fatal, and 2 bicycle crashes, neither of them serious. Two bus stops are listed nearby.
• Lincoln Lane (4115 South) & 2300 East — 2 bicycle crashes and 1 pedestrian crash, none serious or fatal. The model lists a school nearby and estimates about 20 riders a day.
• Big Cottonwood Road (6200 South) & 2300 East — 1 pedestrian crash, serious or fatal, and 1 bicycle crash. UDOT's model has no pedestrian estimate for this signal, yet a person on foot was seriously hurt or killed at this signal during the period.
• Wasatch Boulevard / Millrock Drive & SR-190 (6200 South / Wasatch Boulevard) — 1 pedestrian crash, serious or fatal, and 1 bicycle crash. The model's rider estimate here, about 65 a day, is the highest in Holladay.
• 4500 South (SR-266) & 2700 East — 2 bicycle crashes, 1 of them serious or fatal, and no pedestrian crashes. Three bus stops and a school are listed nearby.
• Murray-Holladay Road (4780 South) & Highland Drive (1850 East) — 1 pedestrian crash and 1 bicycle crash, neither serious or fatal. It takes tenth place over 4500 South at 2300 East, which also logged 2 crashes, both bicycle, because one of its two involved a pedestrian.

Highland Drive is where the severity collects. Six of Holladay's signals sit on it, and they account for 6 of the city's 16 pedestrian crashes but 3 of its 6 serious or fatal ones, plus 2 of the 3 serious or fatal bicycle crashes. In all, 5 of Holladay's 9 serious or fatal crashes happened at Highland Drive signals. Counts on the list run from 5 down to 2 across more than seven and a half years, so neighboring places differ by a single crash.

Where Riders Were Hit

The 20 bicycle crashes landed at 13 signals, and no signal had more than 3. Four signals on 2300 East account for 7 of them, and the Holladay Boulevard signal at Murray-Holladay Road adds 3 more, so half the city's bicycle crashes happened at those five crossings. None of those ten was serious or fatal. The three serious or fatal bicycle crashes were at 4500 South and Highland Drive, 4500 South and 2700 East, and Spring Lane (5240 South) and Highland Drive, a signal that recorded no other crash.

Reading UDOT's Rider and Walker Estimates

Every signal in UDOT's safety model comes with estimates: daily walkers and riders, vehicles on each road, nearby schools and bus stops, and a flag for missing lighting. Those numbers say how many people pass through, which is useful context for where crashes turn up. The model also carries predicted crash figures, but they come from separate work with no stated time frame, so they are left off this page instead of being set beside the counts.

Holladay's estimates track its crash record only loosely. The two signals with the most estimated walkers, Murray-Holladay Road at Holladay Boulevard (about 327 a day) and 3900 South at 2300 East (296), lead the list above. The rider estimates, though, peak at Wasatch Boulevard (65), Cottonwood Lane (44) and Murray-Holladay Road at Holladay Boulevard (43), and only the last of those recorded more than one bicycle crash. Five of the 21 signals have no pedestrian estimate in UDOT's model; one of them, Big Cottonwood Road at 2300 East, still logged a serious or fatal pedestrian crash.

Walkers After Dark, Riders by Day

The two groups in Holladay's record keep different hours. Nineteen of the 20 bicycle crashes happened in daylight. Pedestrian crashes split evenly, 8 in daylight and 8 in the dark, but the dark ones were far worse: 5 of the 6 serious or fatal pedestrian crashes happened after dark. The seasons divide the same way. In the complete years 2018 through 2024, 9 of the city's 16 pedestrian crashes fell in November, December or January, while 14 of the 19 bicycle crashes in those years fell between May and October. Two pedestrian crashes were recorded on snow- or ice-covered pavement. With counts this small, these are patterns in a short record rather than firm rates.

Flags on the Serious Crashes

Of the hit-and-run, impairment, speed and distraction flags on Holladay's pedestrian crash reports, 5 of 6 sit on the serious or fatal crashes. Among those 6 serious or fatal crashes, officers marked 2 as hit and run, 1 as involving an impaired driver, 1 as speed related and 1 as involving a distracted driver; a single crash can carry more than one flag. Teen drivers appear in 3 pedestrian crashes, none of them serious. Among the 20 bicycle crashes, 2 were hit and run, 2 involved a distracted driver and 1 involved a transit vehicle.

A cyclist or pedestrian who has an auto policy is not left waiting on the other driver's insurer. The named insured on a policy is covered by its personal injury protection when injured in an accident involving any motor vehicle, on foot or on a bike, and so are relatives who live in the same household (Utah Code § 31A-22-308(1)-(2)). That coverage pays early medical bills, at least $3,000 of them, without first deciding who was at fault (§ 31A-22-307(1)(a)).

4500 South and the Faster Roads

Holladay has no signal where the higher posted limit is below 35 mph and only one where it is above 40, so most of its crossings are 35 mph intersections. Those 12 signals recorded 11 pedestrian and 12 bicycle crashes, including 4 of the serious or fatal pedestrian crashes. The four signals on 4500 South (SR-266), posted at 40 mph, recorded 3 pedestrian and 5 bicycle crashes with 3 serious or fatal among them, including 2 of the city's 3 serious or fatal bicycle crashes. The lone 50 mph crossing, Wasatch Boulevard at SR-190, had a single pedestrian crash, and it was serious or fatal. UDOT's sidewalk inventory, which covers only state routes, notes absent or discontinuous sidewalk within about 500 feet of 4500 South and Highland Drive. Limits cited are current and may differ from those in force at the time of a crash.

Limits of a Small Count

At 36 crashes over more than seven and a half years, Holladay's numbers are small, and every percentage on this page rests on a handful of events. The count also stops at 250 feet from a signal. A rider struck on a canyon road, a walker hit at an unsignalized crosswalk or in a store lot, or anyone hurt between signals on Highland Drive falls outside it. Each crash is assigned to one signal only. And a crash count shows where collisions were recorded; it does not show who was at fault.

When the Crash Happened at a Holladay Signal

A crossing's history can matter in an injury claim. Prior collisions at the same signal bear on whether a hazard was foreseeable, and records of signal timing, lighting and crosswalk design can be requested from the city or UDOT. Our Holladay pedestrian accident and Holladay bicycle accident pages cover how these claims work locally, and our guides explain how fault is proven, filing a PIP claim and Utah's filing deadlines. For crashes of every kind ranked by street, see Holladay’s most dangerous roads.

What Can Be Recovered

• Bills and wages: ambulance, hospital and surgical charges, physical therapy, and the paychecks missed during recovery, plus any lasting loss of earning ability.
• Pain and lost routines: the physical pain, and the rides, runs and walks that stop when an injury makes them impossible.
• Property and future care: a damaged bicycle, helmet or gear, and treatment that will continue after the case ends.

How These Figures Were Built

Crash records: UDOT, January 1, 2018 through August 4, 2025, limited to crashes involving a pedestrian or bicyclist. Matching: each crash goes to the closest signal in UDOT's signalized-intersection pedestrian and bicycle safety model, if that signal is within 250 feet, the Highway Safety Manual's intersection distance. Severity: Fatal and Suspected Serious Injury are grouped as serious or fatal. Estimates of walkers, riders, vehicles, schools, bus stops and lighting: the same model. City comparisons: 1,209 signals in 52 Utah cities counted this way. Statewide shares: all 1,263 signals. Daylight, darkness, month, pavement and the driver flags are taken from the same UDOT crash records, as the investigating officer coded them, with month comparisons limited to the complete years 2018 through 2024. Posted limits are current: UDOT's 2026 state-route limits and UGRC's Utah Roads estimates for city streets. Every city we have counted this way is listed on our statewide page, Utah’s most dangerous intersections.