Ogden's Most Dangerous Intersections for Pedestrians and Cyclists

How we counted: we took each crash in UDOT’s records that involved a pedestrian or a bicyclist and tied it to the nearest traffic signal within 250 feet, the distance the Highway Safety Manual uses to define an intersection crash. UDOT’s signalized-intersection pedestrian and bicycle safety model lists 73 signals in Ogden, and those 73 are the crossings measured here.

The records put 174 pedestrian crashes and 73 bicycle crashes at those signals. UDOT classified 40 of the pedestrian crashes as fatal or suspected serious injury, which is 23.0 percent; only 3 of the bicycle crashes carried either label, or 4.1 percent. Fifty-four of the 73 signals logged at least one pedestrian crash, while 16 logged neither a pedestrian nor a bicycle crash.

Ogden Pedestrian Crashes Run More Severe Than the State’s

Run the same 250-foot count across all 1,263 signals in UDOT’s statewide model and 16.7 percent of pedestrian crashes come out serious or fatal. In Ogden that share is 23.0 percent. Seen another way, Ogden accounts for roughly 5.8 percent of the modeled signals in Utah yet 11.4 percent of the serious or fatal pedestrian crashes counted at them, 40 of 352.

Bicycle crashes break the other direction. Ogden’s three serious or fatal bicycle crashes work out to 4.1 percent, below the statewide 8.9 percent, and with a count that small a single crash moves the figure noticeably. Inside the city, a pedestrian crash was about 5.6 times as likely as a bicycle crash to carry a serious or fatal code.

Ten Ogden Signals, Ranked by Pedestrian Crashes

Order follows the pedestrian crash count. When two signals tie, the one with more bicycle crashes goes first, and after that the one with more serious or fatal pedestrian crashes. Foot-traffic and vehicle figures are UDOT model estimates, shown for context only.

• 28th Street & Washington Boulevard (US-89) — 14 pedestrian crashes (3 serious or fatal) and 1 bicycle crash. Only three signals anywhere in UDOT’s statewide model logged more pedestrian crashes. A school is nearby, and UDOT estimates about 466 pedestrians a day.
• 12th Street (SR-39) & Washington Boulevard (US-89) — 13 pedestrian crashes (2 serious or fatal) along with 6 bicycle crashes. Both roads are heavy: the busier carries about 33,000 vehicles a day and the other about 24,500. Estimated foot traffic is 767 a day, with a school nearby.
• 31st Street (SR-79) & Wall Avenue (SR-204) — 8 pedestrian crashes, 4 coded serious or fatal, the most serious or fatal pedestrian crashes at any Ogden signal. Its 9 bicycle crashes also lead the city, and statewide only two signals had more.
• 12th Street (SR-39) & Wall Avenue (SR-204) — 8 pedestrian crashes (2 serious or fatal) plus 6 bicycle crashes, one of which was serious or fatal. The busier road carries about 34,500 vehicles a day, the highest volume on this list.
• 7th Street & Washington Boulevard (US-89) — 7 pedestrian crashes (3 serious or fatal) and 2 bicycle crashes (1 serious or fatal). Of Ogden’s 73 modeled signals, this is the only one UDOT’s model flags as unlit.
• 24th Street & Harrison Boulevard (SR-203) — 6 pedestrian crashes, none coded serious or fatal, and 3 bicycle crashes.
• 32nd Street & Washington Boulevard (US-89) — 6 pedestrian crashes, half of them serious or fatal, and 1 bicycle crash. A school sits nearby.
• 26th Street & Washington Boulevard (US-89) — 6 pedestrian crashes (2 serious or fatal) and no bicycle crashes. At an estimated 790 pedestrians a day, it has the heaviest foot traffic in this top ten.
• 12th Street (SR-39) & Monroe Boulevard — 5 pedestrian crashes (2 serious or fatal) and 2 bicycle crashes, making it the third 12th Street signal in the top ten.
• 4600 South & Harrison Boulevard (SR-203) — 5 pedestrian crashes (1 serious or fatal) and 1 bicycle crash. 21st Street & Washington Boulevard and 20th Street & Wall Avenue each logged the same 5 pedestrian crashes and 1 bicycle crash; this signal takes tenth place on its one serious or fatal crash.

UDOT’s model lists all ten as four-leg crossings, and each one involves a numbered state or U.S. highway. Nine of the ten have a bus stop nearby and three have a school nearby. Citywide, the 54 signals that sit on a state or U.S. route account for 161 of the 174 pedestrian crashes and 39 of the 40 serious or fatal ones.

Washington Boulevard First, Then 12th Street and Wall Avenue

Thirteen of Ogden’s modeled signals stand on the stretch of Washington Boulevard that carries US-89. Between them they logged 69 pedestrian crashes, close to 40 percent of the city total, and 18 of the 40 serious or fatal ones. Five of the top ten are on it, at 28th, 12th, 7th, 32nd and 26th Streets. 12th Street (SR-39) is the east-west counterpart: three of its crossings, at Washington, Wall and Monroe, made the top ten, and its six modeled signals logged 28 pedestrian crashes. Wall Avenue (SR-204) weighs most heavily on cyclists, with its nine signals accounting for 20 of Ogden’s 73 bicycle crashes.

Foot Traffic, Vehicle Volume and Transit at These Crossings

Beyond the crash counts, UDOT’s safety model describes each signal: estimated pedestrians and bicyclists per day, vehicle volumes on both roads, nearby schools and bus stops, and whether the crossing is lit. At the five Washington Boulevard crossings in the top ten, estimated foot traffic ranges from about 259 to 790 pedestrians a day, and the busier road at each carries 28,000 to 33,000 vehicles. 31st Street and Wall Avenue stands apart. UDOT estimates about 130 pedestrians a day there and lists no bus stop nearby, and it still recorded 4 serious or fatal pedestrian crashes, more than any other Ogden signal.

Volumes, schools, bus stops and lighting are UDOT model inputs, not crash records. The model also assigns each signal a predicted crash figure; because that estimate was not built on the 2018–2025 window used here, this page does not compare the two.

Ogden’s Most Serious Crashes Came After 3 p.m.

Ogden’s pedestrian crashes build through the afternoon and into the night. Of the 174, 65 happened between 3 and 7 p.m. and another 47 between 7 p.m. and midnight, and those two windows hold 26 of the 40 that were serious or fatal. Darkness raised the stakes: 62 pedestrian crashes happened after dark, on lit streets or unlit ones, and 17 of them were serious or fatal, about 27 percent. Of the 104 in daylight, 19 were, about 18 percent.

The calendar points to winter. Counting only the complete years 2018 through 2024, December, with 20 pedestrian crashes, and January, with 18, were Ogden’s two worst months for people on foot, while April had 5. Bicycle crashes ran the other way: May and June had 11 each, and December had 1.

Hit-and-Run Drivers in Ogden

Ogden’s crash reports flag the driver as leaving the scene in 41 of the 174 pedestrian crashes, 23.6 percent. Statewide, under the same matching, the figure is 17.6 percent, and of the 20 Utah cities with at least 20 pedestrian crashes at their signals, only South Jordan and Midvale have a higher share. Twelve of the 73 bicycle crashes carried the same flag.

When the driver is never identified, the claim usually moves to uninsured motorist coverage. Utah Code § 31A-22-305 counts “an unidentified motor vehicle that left the scene of an accident” as an uninsured vehicle, and a person hurt as a pedestrian by an uninsured vehicle may also recover under one other policy that lists them as a covered person. Other flags matter in other ways: an older driver was involved in 8 of the 40 serious or fatal pedestrian crashes, and all 3 crashes flagged for DUI ended in serious injury or death.

Posted Limits Where Ogden’s Pedestrians Are Hit

The busiest site for pedestrian crashes, 28th Street at Washington Boulevard, is posted 35 mph on both streets. 12th Street meets both Washington Boulevard and Wall Avenue at 40 on each road. 31st Street at Wall Avenue, which has Ogden’s most serious or fatal pedestrian crashes, 4, is posted 45 on 31st Street, and so is 12th Street where it meets Monroe Boulevard, a signal with 2. These are current postings from UDOT’s state-route speed data and UGRC’s road data, not the speed of any car in a recorded crash.

Impact speed is what decides how badly a person on foot is hurt. A 2011 AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety study estimated that a struck pedestrian’s average risk of death reaches 10 percent at an impact speed of 23 mph and 50 percent at 42 mph. UDOT’s sidewalk inventory, which covers state routes only, also records a missing or broken stretch of sidewalk within about 500 feet of two signals on the list: 12th Street at Wall Avenue and 4600 South at Harrison Boulevard.

Where These Counts Fall Short

A crash farther than 250 feet from a signal is not in these numbers, so mid-block crossings, driveways, parking lots and corners without a signal are all missing. A crash within 250 feet of two signals is credited only to the nearer one. Severity is taken as UDOT’s records classify it. And a count, however high, says nothing about who was at fault in any single crash.

Evidence Worth Gathering After an Ogden Crossing Crash

Years of collisions at the same corner can support an argument that the danger was foreseeable, and they can matter when an insurer weighs a claim. Crash data like this is public, and signal timing plans, crosswalk striping and lighting records can be requested from the city or from UDOT, depending on who controls the crossing. Our Ogden pedestrian accident and Ogden bicycle accident pages walk through how these claims proceed. For the statewide rules, read about proving fault in Utah, the PIP claim process and Utah’s filing deadline. For crashes of every kind ranked by street, see Ogden’s most dangerous roads.

Losses an Ogden Claim Can Cover

• Economic losses: ambulance and ER bills, imaging, surgery, rehabilitation, paychecks missed while healing, and lost earning capacity when an injury limits future work.
• Non-economic losses: pain, and the loss of something as ordinary as walking across Wall Avenue or Harrison Boulevard without fear.
• Lasting injury: follow-up operations, therapy that outlasts the case, and help at home when healing stops short of a full recovery.

Sources and Method

Crash counts come from UDOT’s crash records and include every pedestrian- or bicycle-involved crash from January 1, 2018 through August 4, 2025 that occurred within 250 feet of a signal, assigned to the nearest one. Serious or fatal means UDOT recorded the severity as “Fatal” or “Suspected Serious Injury.” The list of signals and the figures for pedestrian and bicycle volumes, traffic volumes, schools, bus stops and lighting come from UDOT’s signalized-intersection pedestrian and bicycle safety model. Statewide comparisons apply the same method to all 1,263 signals in that model. Crash times, light conditions and the officers’ driver flags come from the same UDOT records, with months compared over the complete years 2018 through 2024 only; posted limits come from UDOT’s 2026 state-route speed layer and UGRC’s Utah Roads data, and sidewalk notes from UDOT’s state-route sidewalk inventory. Every city we have counted this way is listed on our statewide page, Utah’s most dangerous intersections.