Midvale's Most Dangerous Intersections for Pedestrians and Cyclists

How the count works: UDOT keeps a list of the signalized intersections it models for pedestrian and bicycle safety, and 24 of them are in Midvale. We took every crash in UDOT's records that involved a pedestrian or a bicyclist and assigned it to the closest signal on that list, provided the signal was within 250 feet, which is the Highway Safety Manual's definition of an intersection crash. A crash counts as serious or fatal when UDOT coded it Fatal or Suspected Serious Injury.

Under that method, Midvale's signals account for 70 pedestrian crashes and 19 bicycle crashes, 89 in all. Seventeen of the pedestrian crashes were serious or fatal, 24.3%, and 2 of the bicycle crashes were, 10.5%. Pedestrian crashes reached 21 of the 24 signals. Every signal with a bicycle crash also had a pedestrian crash, and only 3 signals had neither.

Severity Out of Proportion to Size

Statewide, applying the same 250-foot match to all 1,263 modeled signals, 16.7% of pedestrian crashes were serious or fatal. Midvale's share is 24.3%, roughly one crash in four. Among Utah cities with at least 20 pedestrian crashes at their signals, no city's share is higher; Provo comes closest at 23.9%. Small numbers drive it either way: one serious crash more or less would shift Midvale's share by about 1.4 points.

The serious crashes are not confined to one or two corners. Twelve different Midvale signals recorded at least one serious or fatal pedestrian crash, more than half of the 21 that had any pedestrian crash at all. 7200 South at 300 West had 3, and only three signals anywhere in Utah had more. 7800 South at Bingham Junction Boulevard had just 2 pedestrian crashes, and both were serious or fatal.

Ranking Midvale's Signals by Pedestrian Crashes

The ten signals below are ordered by the number of pedestrian crashes recorded from January 2018 through August 4, 2025. When two signals tie, the one with more bicycle crashes is listed first, and after that the one with more serious or fatal pedestrian crashes. Daily walker and vehicle figures are UDOT model estimates, not counts.

• 7200 South (SR-48) & State Street (US-89) — 9 pedestrian crashes, 2 of them serious or fatal, and 1 bicycle crash. The most pedestrian crashes at any Midvale signal; ten signals statewide had more. UDOT estimates about 451 people cross here on foot each day.
• 7200 South (SR-48) & 300 West — 8 pedestrian crashes and 1 bicycle crash. Three of the pedestrian crashes were serious or fatal, the most at any signal in the city. The busier of its two roads carries an estimated 37,000 vehicles a day.
• Fort Union Boulevard (7200 South) & 700 East — 7 pedestrian crashes, 1 serious or fatal, and no bicycle crashes. It is the only Midvale signal that UDOT's model flags as unlit.
• Fort Union Boulevard (about 7100 South) & 900 East (SR-71) — 6 pedestrian crashes (1 serious or fatal) and 2 bicycle crashes. UDOT's model gives it the city's highest estimated foot traffic, about 492 people a day, and four nearby bus stops.
• Center Street (7720 South) & Main Street (700 West) — 6 pedestrian crashes, none serious or fatal, and no bicycle crashes. Estimated foot traffic of about 471 a day is second in the city, while the busier road carries about 14,500 vehicles a day, the lightest volume in this top ten.
• 7200 South (SR-48) & 700 West — 4 pedestrian crashes, 2 serious or fatal, and 2 bicycle crashes, 1 serious or fatal. One of only two Midvale signals with a serious or fatal bicycle crash.
• Hillcrest High Drive (7400 South) & 900 East (SR-71) — 4 pedestrian crashes (1 serious or fatal) and 2 bicycle crashes. A three-leg intersection where UDOT estimates about 20 cyclists a day, among the highest bicycle estimates in the city.
• 7500 South & State Street (US-89) — 3 pedestrian crashes, 1 serious or fatal, and 2 bicycle crashes. UDOT's model lists a school nearby and two bus stops.
• 7800 South & State Street (US-89) — 3 pedestrian crashes (1 serious or fatal) and 1 bicycle crash, at a three-leg intersection with an estimated 224 people on foot a day.
• 7720 South (Center Street) & State Street (US-89) — 3 pedestrian crashes, none serious or fatal, and no bicycle crashes. It edges out the signals with 2 pedestrian crashes, among them 7800 South at Bingham Junction Boulevard, where both were serious or fatal.

Together the ten account for 53 of Midvale's 70 pedestrian crashes and 12 of its 17 serious or fatal ones. State Street (US-89) appears four times, and 7200 South, including the stretch named Fort Union Boulevard, appears five times; the two meet at the top of the list. Counts run from 9 down to 3 over seven and a half years, so the order shows where crashes were recorded rather than a precise ranking of danger.

Bicycle Crashes: Thin and Spread Out

Midvale's 19 bicycle crashes are scattered. No signal recorded more than 2, and six signals share that top count. Three of the six are on 900 East (SR-71), at Fort Union Boulevard, Hillcrest High Drive and 7220 South, which is also where UDOT's model puts the most riders, about 20 to 22 a day at each. The 2 serious or fatal bicycle crashes were both on 7200 South, at 700 West and at Bingham Junction Boulevard (900 West).

Where UDOT's Estimates Help, and Where They Don't

For each signal, UDOT's model also estimates daily foot and bicycle traffic, vehicle volumes on both roads, nearby schools and bus stops, and lighting. Those figures describe how many people are exposed to traffic. The model also assigns each signal a predicted crash figure, but that number was produced separately and covers no stated period, so this page does not line it up against the January 2018 to August 2025 counts.

Midvale's four busiest walking signals by estimate, Fort Union Boulevard at 900 East (about 492 a day), Center Street at Main Street (471), 7200 South at State Street (451) and 7200 South at 300 West (439), all rank in the top five for pedestrian crashes. Exposure explains part of the pattern. It does not explain 7800 South at Bingham Junction Boulevard, where the model has no pedestrian estimate at all, even though both pedestrian crashes there were serious or fatal. A blank in the model is a missing estimate, not an empty crosswalk.

Serious Injuries in Broad Daylight

Midvale's worst pedestrian crashes have mostly happened with the sun up. Of the 17 that were serious or fatal, 9 occurred in full daylight and 5 in the dark, and the 20 dark-hour crashes make up 28.6% of the city's 70, below the statewide 34.1%. Mornings weigh more heavily here: 16 pedestrian crashes, 22.9%, happened between 6 and 9 a.m., compared with 15.8% at signals statewide, and 11 of the 17 serious or fatal crashes fell between 6 a.m. and 3 p.m. Five crashes happened at dawn. Wet pavement was recorded in 11 crashes, 15.7%, against 10.6% statewide. Tuesday was the busiest day, with 16.

One in Four Drivers Left

The crash reports flag 18 of Midvale's 70 pedestrian crashes as hit and run, 25.7%. Statewide the figure is 17.6%, and among Utah cities with at least 20 pedestrian crashes at their signals, only South Jordan's share is higher. Three of the 18 were serious or fatal. Older drivers appear in 11 pedestrian crashes, 15.7% against 10.5% statewide, and distracted drivers in 5, two of them serious or fatal. One serious or fatal crash involved a transit vehicle.

For people covered by personal injury protection, Utah's no-fault law bars a suit for pain and suffering unless the injury crosses a threshold, such as a bone fracture, a permanent impairment or more than $3,000 in medical expenses (Utah Code § 31A-22-309(1)(a)). That threshold does not apply to an uninsured motorist claim (§ 31A-22-309(1)(b)), which is the claim a hit-and-run victim typically brings against their own policy, because a vehicle that left the scene and was never identified is treated as uninsured (§ 31A-22-305(2)(b)).

Speed Limits Along 7200 South and State Street

Eight of the ten signals on Midvale's list sit where the higher current posted limit is 40 mph, including all four State Street (US-89) crossings among them, and 7200 South (SR-48) is posted at 40 mph at each of its listed signals. Across the city, the 16 signals in that 40 mph group recorded 54 of the 70 pedestrian crashes and 12 of the 17 serious or fatal ones. Center Street at Main Street, at 35 mph, is the slower exception on the list; 7200 South at 700 West, where UGRC's road data shows 700 West at up to 45 mph, is the faster one. Posted speed is not the whole story: 7800 South at Bingham Junction Boulevard, where UGRC lists both streets at 25 mph, had 2 pedestrian crashes and both were serious or fatal. UDOT's state-route sidewalk inventory notes absent or discontinuous sidewalk within about 500 feet of Fort Union Boulevard and 900 East.

Limits of These Counts

Several kinds of crashes never reach this page. Anything beyond 250 feet of a modeled signal drops out, which leaves out people hit in the middle of a long block, in a store lot or at a crosswalk with no signal. Every included crash belongs to exactly one signal. The unit is the crash, not the injured person, so one collision that hurt two pedestrians counts once. Because most Midvale signals have only a handful of crashes, a single additional one can move a crossing several places. And a count says nothing about fault; it shows where collisions occurred, not who caused them.

After a Crash at One of These Signals

A crossing's history matters in an injury claim. When a signal has a record of pedestrians being hurt, an argument that the danger could not have been anticipated is harder to sustain, and the design of the crossing can become part of the case. Signal timing plans, crosswalk markings and lighting records are kept by Midvale City or UDOT and can be requested, and claims against a government entity carry their own notice requirements and shorter deadlines. Our Midvale personal injury and Midvale car accident pages cover local claims, the statewide posts on pedestrian accident claims and bicycle accident claims explain how those cases work, and our guides cover how fault is proven, filing a PIP claim and the deadline to sue. Every crash type, ranked by street, is on our Midvale’s most dangerous roads page.

Losses a Claim Can Cover

• Medical bills and income: ambulance, emergency and hospital charges, surgery and rehabilitation, wages missed while healing, and reduced earning capacity after a lasting injury.
• Pain and disruption: physical suffering, fear of stepping into traffic again, and the parts of daily life an injury puts out of reach.
• What comes later: additional surgery, ongoing therapy, mobility aids, and in-home help when recovery stops short.

Sources and Method

Pedestrian and bicycle crashes: UDOT crash records, January 1, 2018 to August 4, 2025, each matched to the nearest signal within 250 feet (the Highway Safety Manual intersection distance). Serious or fatal: crashes UDOT coded Fatal or Suspected Serious Injury. Signal list and all daily volume, school, bus-stop and lighting figures: UDOT's signalized-intersection pedestrian and bicycle safety model, which estimates them. Statewide and city comparisons apply the same method to all 1,263 modeled signals and to the 52 Utah cities we have analyzed. Lighting, time of day, pavement condition and the driver flags come from the same UDOT crash records; they reflect what the investigating officer coded. Posted limits are current figures from UDOT's 2026 state-route speed layer and, on city streets, UGRC's Utah Roads; sidewalk notes cover state routes only. Every city we have counted this way is listed on our statewide page, Utah’s most dangerous intersections.