DAVIS COUNTY
Hit by a semi on I-15 or a delivery truck on Main Street in Kaysville? We will review what happened at no cost. You pay nothing up front, and no attorney fees unless we win.
UDOT crash records for 2018 through 2025 log 427 crashes involving a commercial vehicle on and around Kaysville’s road network, 93 of them causing injury and two causing a death. The pattern is lopsided: 225 of those happened on I-15, and almost all of the rest concentrate on the three streets that bring freight into town.
More than half of every commercial-vehicle crash in the Kaysville area happens on this stretch. It carries Ogden-to-Salt Lake freight past the city’s interchanges while commuter volume builds and stalls around them. Notably, 348 of the area’s 427 truck crashes happened in full daylight, so this is a congestion problem rather than a night-driving one, and rear-end impacts into slowing traffic dominate.
Thirty-four commercial-vehicle crashes. US-89 was rebuilt as a limited-access freeway through Davis County, which removed the old signalized intersections but raised travel speeds along Kaysville’s eastern edge. Trucks entering and leaving at the interchanges meet local drivers still judging freeway-speed merges.
Thirty crashes. This is the main east-west connector between I-15 and the bench, carrying delivery trucks to the businesses along it while also serving as a school route. It is the second-worst street in the city for bicycle crashes, which matters a great deal when a truck is turning across a bike lane.
Thirty-seven crashes, more than any other city street. Main Street is Kaysville’s commercial spine, with angled access to older storefronts and the city offices. Box trucks stopping in or beside the travel lane to unload endanger both following drivers and people on foot: Main Street also accounts for 21 of the area’s 73 pedestrian crashes.
Fort Lane and the connectors toward Layton and Farmington move trucks between I-15 and businesses on the east side. Kaysville has no FrontRunner station of its own, the nearest being Layton at 150 South Main and Farmington at 450 North 850 West, so freight and commuters share these surface streets instead of splitting off to rail.
Who investigates, and claims against a public body
Kaysville City Police, at 80 North Main Street, work crashes on city streets, while the Utah Highway Patrol generally handles I-15 and US-89. If a UDOT work zone, a Davis County vehicle or a Kaysville City vehicle is involved, the Governmental Immunity Act applies and the claim is barred unless written notice is filed within one year (Utah Code § 63G-7-402).
Your own auto insurer pays first through personal injury protection, regardless of fault. Utah Code § 31A-22-307 sets the medical minimum at $3,000 and pays 85% of lost gross income up to $250 a week for as long as 52 weeks. Our no-fault guide walks through it.
A single emergency visit to Intermountain Layton Hospital or Holy Cross Hospital – Davis on Antelope Drive can pass that figure on its own. You can claim pain, suffering and lost quality of life from the trucking company only after meeting the Utah Code § 31A-22-309 threshold, which means one of the following:
Past the threshold, the carrier’s liability policy answers for the whole loss, including care you will still need and earning capacity you have lost. If its limits fall short, underinsured motorist coverage on your own policy can add to it, and an uninsured claim carries no threshold at all. How UIM works.
Under Utah Code § 78B-5-818, you can recover only if the combined fault of the defendants is greater than your own, and your share is deducted from what you receive.
In a Kaysville case the carrier’s adjuster may argue you merged late onto I-15, tried to pass a turning truck on Main Street, or stepped out between parked cars downtown. Because so many of these crashes happen in daylight at moderate speed, the dispute is usually about positioning, which is why the truck’s electronic data, nearby business video and the driver’s logs decide more than anyone’s memory does.
Deadlines that end the claim
A motor vehicle injury suit generally has four years (§ 78B-2-307) and wrongful death two (§ 78B-2-304), but anything touching UDOT, Davis County or Kaysville City needs notice inside one year. Our deadline guide lists the rest.
A commercial driver may not use alcohol within four hours of going on duty or have any measurable concentration while on duty (49 CFR 392.5), and may not drive under the influence of Schedule I drugs, amphetamines or narcotics (49 CFR 392.4). Four of the eight fatal crashes recorded in the Kaysville area since 2018 involved an impaired driver.
A property-carrying driver is limited to 11 driving hours after 10 consecutive hours off duty, inside a 14-hour window, and must keep an electronic log (49 CFR 395.3). A driver finishing a shift on the Ogden-to-Salt Lake run meets the worst of the I-15 slowdown right through Kaysville, and the log is what shows how long he had been driving.
Every commercial vehicle must display the operating carrier’s name and USDOT number on both sides, legible from 50 feet, and a leased truck running under another company’s name must add “operated by” with the real carrier (49 CFR 390.21). A single photograph of the door often establishes who actually pays.
Interstate carriers hauling general freight must carry at least $750,000 in liability coverage, and hazardous loads require more: $1,000,000 for many, $5,000,000 for certain bulk substances (49 CFR 387.9). Tankers running I-15 fall in the higher tiers. See our Utah truck claims guide.
Kaysville-area records show 180 hit-and-run crashes since 2018. Uninsured motorist coverage may respond, but where the truck never touched your vehicle, Utah Code § 31A-22-305(6) requires clear and convincing corroboration beyond your own testimony, so write down anything you read on the door.
A Kaysville truck case that has to be filed goes to the Second Judicial District Court for Davis County, at 800 West State Street in Farmington. Most resolve long before that, but the carrier should be told in writing to preserve its logs, telematics and driver file at once, because that material is otherwise overwritten on an ordinary retention schedule. Call (801) 921-5134 or request a free case review. You pay nothing up front, and no attorney fees unless we win. Hablamos Español. More: Kaysville car accident page and Kaysville personal injury page.
This is general information about Utah and federal trucking law for Kaysville and Davis County, not legal advice about your situation. Every claim turns on its own facts, and past results do not guarantee future ones.