Hurricane's Most Dangerous Roads

UDOT's public crash records were mapped against Hurricane's city limits and then against the state's road map, so each crash sits on the street the officer named or, failing that, the nearest one. That gives a ranking by road rather than by corner. Crashes on freeway ramps and in private lots are set apart. A crash is counted as serious or fatal when the report lists a death or a suspected serious injury.

The city's 1,934 reported crashes break down as 1,867 on the streets ranked here, 11 on ramps, 9 on private property and 47 that matched no mapped road. On the streets, 13 fatal crashes killed 13 people, and someone was hurt to some degree, possible injuries included, in 797 crashes (42.7%), the third-highest rate of the 57 cities.

The Highest Serious-Crash Share of 57 Cities

Across non-freeway roads in the seven counties covered here (Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, Weber, Summit, Cache and Washington), 2.57% of crashes were serious or fatal. Hurricane's 6.37% is roughly two and a half times that. The difference is not driven by darkness or bad weather: only 17.5% of Hurricane's street crashes happened after dark, the second-lowest share of the 57 cities, and 7 involved snow, ice or slush.

State Street (SR-9) carries most of the load. Its 987 crashes are 52.9% of the city's total, the third-highest concentration on a single road of any of the 57 cities, and its 61 serious or fatal crashes are 51.3% of Hurricane's. UDOT estimates reach about 34,000 vehicles a day on it.

Hurricane's Ranked Roads, Busiest First

Five Hurricane roads recorded at least 50 crashes from January 2018 through August 4, 2025. They are listed by crash count, with freeway ramps excluded; a crash where two of them meet counts once, on the road the report named.

• State Street (SR-9) — 987 crashes; 61 serious or fatal; 5 killed. Rear-end collisions were 489 of them. Its busiest junctions are 3400 West (62), 3700 West (59) and 5300 West (59), but 1150 West, with 49, had the most serious ones (6).
• 3400 West — 66 crashes; 3 serious or fatal, all of them angle collisions; no deaths. An older driver was involved in 29 of the 66. The 90 North junction had 21.
• Sand Hollow Road — 64 crashes; 6 serious or fatal; no deaths. Half were in the group UDOT reports as single-vehicle or not applicable (32), and a vehicle left the roadway in 27.
• 600 North — 58 crashes; 7 serious or fatal; 1 killed. A motorcycle was in 4 of the 7 serious ones. The 870 West junction recorded 8, 2 of them serious or fatal.
• Highway 59 (SR-59) — 50 crashes; 7 serious or fatal; 3 killed in 3 fatal crashes. Only 8% happened at a junction; a vehicle left the road in 33 of the 50.

Together the five hold 1,225 crashes (65.6%), 84 of the 119 serious or fatal ones and 9 of the 13 deaths. Below State Street the counts drop to a few dozen a road, so one or two crashes can reorder the list; the severity figures for the smaller roads rest on single digits.

Highway 59: Few Crashes, Three Deaths

Highway 59 (SR-59) is last on the list by count but has 3 of Hurricane's 13 deaths, 14.0% of its crashes ending in death or serious injury. 600 North ties it with 7 serious or fatal crashes on 58 crashes. Off the list, the Southern Parkway (SR-7) recorded 5 serious or fatal crashes and 1 death among 41, and Old Highway 91 (6300 West) 5 and 1 among 26. On State Street, by contrast, 6.2% of crashes were serious or fatal.

Distracted Drivers and Daylight Crashes

Officers flagged a distracted driver in 267 street crashes (14.3%), the third-highest rate of the 57 cities and above the seven-county 9.8%. Aggressive driving was flagged in 37 (2.0%), also third. Rear-end crashes were the most common type (638), but the serious ones were more often in UDOT's single-vehicle or not-applicable group (54 of 119), which includes a vehicle striking a pedestrian or leaving the road.

Pedestrians were involved in 11 of the serious or fatal crashes and motorcyclists in 24. An unbelted occupant was noted in 19 (16.0%). Serious or fatal crashes ran 10 and 9 in 2018 and 2019, then 17 to 19 a year from 2020 through 2024 while total crashes stayed between 219 and 264. Across the seven counties they also rose, from 844 in 2018 to 1,045 in 2024, so part of the change may lie in how severity was coded.

Only Ramp Crashes Count as Freeway Here

No interstate crash appears inside Hurricane's limits in this data. The 11 freeway-type crashes were on interchange ramps: 6 on SR-9 ramps, 2 of them serious, and 4 on SR-7 ramps. The figures leave out property-damage crashes below Utah's reporting threshold, and a crash where two ranked roads meet counts on only one.

What Utah Law Gives an Injured Hurricane Driver

Start with your own personal injury protection, which pays at least $3,000 in medical costs no matter who was at fault (Utah Code § 31A-22-307). To claim pain and other general damages from the driver who caused the crash, the injury has to clear the threshold in § 31A-22-309, such as a broken bone, a permanent impairment or more than $3,000 in medical bills; that threshold does not apply to an uninsured motorist claim. If the other driver fled and is never found, the car is treated as uninsured (§ 31A-22-305(2)(b)). Your recovery shrinks by your own share of fault and requires the others' combined fault to exceed yours (§ 78B-5-818). Most injury suits have four years (§ 78B-2-307), but a claim that a road was unsafe, against a city or UDOT, needs written notice within one year (§ 63G-7-402). Our Hurricane car accident page and our post on distracted-driving claims go further, along with our guides to how fault is proven, filing a PIP claim and the deadline to sue.

What Hurricane Crash Victims Can Claim

• Bills and wages: emergency care, imaging, therapy, prescriptions and the paychecks an injury costs you.
• The human cost: pain, interrupted sleep and the routines and activities you have had to give up.
• What comes next: future treatment, reduced earning ability and repair or replacement of your vehicle.

Hurricane Figures: Sources and Caveats

Crash data: UDOT Crash_Locations, January 1, 2018 to August 4, 2025, the end of the public feed. City limits: UGRC's current municipal boundaries for every year. Streets: UGRC's Utah Roads, matched within 35 meters and preferring the road named in the report. Serious or fatal means a crash coded Fatal or Suspected Serious Injury. Comparisons are to non-freeway crashes in the seven counties listed above, and city rankings are among the 57 cities with enough crashes to rank their roads. Every city we have ranked this way is listed on our statewide page, Utah’s most dangerous roads.