North Salt Lake's Most Dangerous Roads

UDOT's crash file, which runs through August 4, 2025, was filtered to North Salt Lake's city limits, and every crash was tied to the street it was plotted on, with extra weight given to the road the officer wrote down. Interstate lanes and ramps are tallied in their own section, Legacy Parkway sits in the street total without a rank, and parking-lot crashes stay out of the street figures. Serious or fatal means the report listed a death or a suspected serious injury.

The city logged 4,025 crashes in that span. 1,711 of them, 42.5%, were on I-15, I-215 or their ramps, the sixth-highest freeway share among the 57 cities measured. 57 happened on private property and 21 could not be placed on a street. That leaves 2,236 street crashes: 45 serious or fatal (2.0%, under the 2.6% seen on streets across the seven counties in this data) and 4 deaths. Someone was reported hurt, counting possible injuries, in 27.5% of them.

Trucks and Work Vehicles on City Streets

Commercial vehicles were in 288 of the city's street crashes, about twice the 6.4% share across the seven counties, and in 7 of the 45 that were serious or fatal. Redwood Road (SR-68) carries the most: 78 of its 406 crashes, 19.2%. Center Street is next with 38 of 230.

The two state routes that run the length of town, Redwood Road and Highway 89 (US-89), had 771 crashes between them, 34.5% of the street total, and 21 of the 45 serious or fatal ones. Redwood Road also accounts for 2 of the 4 street deaths. Its junction with Center Street recorded 56 crashes, 4 of them serious or fatal; on Highway 89 the busiest junction was Eagleridge Drive, with 55.

North Salt Lake Streets With the Heaviest Crash Records

Streets are ordered by the crashes recorded on them inside city limits, and only the seven that reached 50 crashes are listed. A crash where two listed streets meet counts once, on the street the report names. The cross streets given are each street's busiest junctions.

• Redwood Road (800 West, SR-68) — 406 crashes, 12 serious or fatal, 2 deaths. Side-impact crashes lead at 36.2%. Center Street (56), 1100 North (38) and 900 North (33) are its busiest crossings. UDOT estimates reach about 14,000 vehicles a day.
• Highway 89 (US-89) — 365 crashes, 9 serious or fatal, no deaths. 150 of them, 41.1%, came between 3 and 7 p.m. Eagleridge Drive (55) and Center Street (34) lead its junctions, and UDOT estimates reach about 27,000 vehicles a day.
• 1100 North — 232 crashes, 4 serious or fatal. Rear-end collisions make up 36.6%. Most of the volume sits at two corners: 2600 South (68) and 500 East (53).
• Center Street — 230 crashes, 4 serious or fatal. Rear-end crashes are 43.0% of the total, the highest share among the seven streets listed. The Redwood Road junction had 43; people on foot were struck in 4 crashes, 2 of them serious.
• Orchard Drive — 119 crashes, none serious or fatal. 44 happened in the dark and 34 between 7 p.m. and midnight. Eagleridge Drive (23) is its busiest junction.
• Main Street — 84 crashes, 1 serious or fatal. Its 1100 North (21) and Highway 89 (18) junctions account for nearly half.
• Eagleridge Drive — 76 crashes, 1 serious or fatal. 28 were in UDOT's single-vehicle or not-applicable group and 20 involved a vehicle leaving the road; 32 were in the dark.

The seven streets hold 1,512 of the 2,236 street crashes (67.6%) and 31 of the 45 serious or fatal ones. Two of them stand out for when crashes happen rather than how many: Orchard Drive and Eagleridge Drive recorded 76 of their 195 crashes in the dark, 39.0%, against 22.6% for the city's streets as a whole.

Ordered by Serious Crashes, the Top Four Hold

Sorting by serious or fatal crashes changes little at the top: Redwood Road (12), Highway 89 (9), 1100 North (4) and Center Street (4). The surprise is farther down. Valley View Drive (350 East) had only 6 crashes, yet 2 were serious or fatal, while Orchard Drive, fifth by volume, had none. Rear-end collisions were 26.7% of street crashes but 2 of the serious ones.

Trains, Buses and Drivers Who Left the Road

A train was involved in 11 street crashes. That is a small number, 0.5%, but only one of the 57 cities measured has a higher share. Transit vehicles were in 30 crashes, 1.3%, the fourth-highest share. A vehicle running off the road was flagged in 333 crashes (14.9%, against 12.8% across the seven counties) and in 11 of the 45 serious or fatal ones. Impairment was flagged in 5 of the serious crashes.

Crashes ran heavier in winter. In the complete years 2018 through 2024, December had the most street crashes (211) and January the second most (203), and snow, ice or slush was on the road in 160 crashes, 7.2%, compared with 5.9% across the seven counties. Sunday was the quietest day, with 126.

Two Interstates, Counted Apart

I-15 recorded 1,386 crashes inside North Salt Lake, 15 serious or fatal, with 3 deaths. I-215 added 295, 6 of them serious or fatal. Freeway and ramp crashes are 42.5% of the city's total, against 21.4% across the seven counties. Legacy Parkway's 96 crashes, 3 serious or fatal, are counted with the streets but not ranked, since most are coded as expressway crashes. Unreported crashes, minor property-damage crashes below Utah's reporting threshold and anything after August 4, 2025 are not here.

Claims Involving Work Trucks and Other Drivers

Your own personal injury protection pays first, at least $3,000 of medical expenses regardless of fault (Utah Code § 31A-22-307). To claim pain and other general damages from the at-fault driver, the injury must pass the threshold in § 31A-22-309, such as a fracture, permanent impairment or more than $3,000 in medical expenses; uninsured motorist claims are exempt from that threshold. A hit-and-run vehicle that is never identified is treated as uninsured (§ 31A-22-305(2)(b)). If the other vehicle was being driven for work, a company policy may also be involved. Your recovery shrinks by your share of fault and is barred unless the others' fault is greater (§ 78B-5-818). Most injury suits must be filed within four years (§ 78B-2-307), but a claim that a city or UDOT road was unsafe needs a written notice of claim within one year (§ 63G-7-402). Our North Salt Lake car accident and personal injury pages go further, along with our guides to truck accident claims, proving fault, filing a PIP claim and the deadline to sue.

Covering the Costs a Crash Causes

• Bills and lost income: emergency care, specialists, therapy, medication, time off work and damage to your vehicle.
• Life after the crash: pain, disrupted sleep and the routines and activities an injury puts on hold.
• Costs still to come: later procedures, ongoing treatment, lower earning ability and help you may need at home.

The Records Behind These Counts

Crash data: UDOT's public Crash_Locations records, all crash types, January 1, 2018 to August 4, 2025. City limits: UGRC's current municipal boundaries, used for every year. Each crash was matched to the closest UGRC Utah Roads segment within 35 meters, favoring the road the officer named; across the state that match agrees with the reported road about nine times in ten. Serious or fatal covers reported deaths and suspected serious injuries. Flags record what officers noted, not fault. Comparisons use street crashes in the seven counties covered by this data. Every city we have ranked this way is listed on our statewide page, Utah’s most dangerous roads.