Saratoga Springs' Most Dangerous Roads

The ranking covers crashes UDOT logged inside Saratoga Springs city limits, each assigned to a street from the state road map, with the road named in the officer's report breaking ties between nearby streets. The city has no interstate, so only a handful of interchange-ramp crashes are set aside, along with crashes on private property. Serious or fatal means the report listed a death or a suspected serious injury.

For January 2018 through August 4, 2025 the records hold 4,473 crashes in the city: 4,307 on streets, 128 on private property, 16 on ramps and 22 that could not be matched to a street. Of the street crashes, 90 were serious or fatal (2.1%), and 13 people died. Streets across the seven counties in this data, Salt Lake, Utah, Davis, Weber, Summit, Cache and Washington, run at 2.6%. An injury, possible injuries included, was reported in 25.4% of Saratoga Springs street crashes, well under the 32.1% for those counties.

Redwood Road's Outsized Share

Redwood Road had 1,460 crashes inside city limits, 33.9% of the street total, along with 29 of the 90 serious or fatal crashes and 6 of the 13 deaths. Most of its crashes are rear-end collisions, 60.2%. Its busiest junctions are 400 North (134 crashes), Pony Express Parkway (111, 2 serious or fatal), Crossroads Boulevard (98, 2) and Pioneer Crossing (82, 2).

The street's reports also show the city's most common risky behaviors. A teen driver was involved in 482 of Redwood Road's crashes, a driver disregarded a signal or sign in 101, including 8 serious or fatal crashes, and impairment was flagged in 12, 4 of them serious or fatal. In full years its total ranged from 151 to 226, the high coming in 2023.

Where Saratoga Springs Crashes Are Reported

Streets appear in order of the crashes UDOT assigned to them within city limits, January 2018 through August 4, 2025. When two listed streets meet, a crash there is credited only to the street the report names, so a junction count reflects that street's crashes, not the corner's full total.

• Redwood Road (SR-68) — 1,460 crashes, 29 serious or fatal, 6 deaths. Rear-end collisions make up 60.2%. 400 North (134) and Pony Express Parkway (111) are its busiest junctions, and UDOT estimates reach about 24,000 vehicles a day on the road.
• Pioneer Crossing (SR-145) — 407 crashes, 10 serious or fatal, 1 death. Just over half, 52.6%, were rear-end crashes. Redwood Road (66), Riverside Drive (52, 2 serious or fatal), Crossroads Boulevard (47) and 2300 West (45, 2 serious or fatal) lead its junctions.
• Pony Express Parkway — 315 crashes, 6 serious or fatal, 2 deaths in 2 fatal crashes. 118 of its crashes happened at Redwood Road, and its yearly count went from 21 in 2020 to 56 in 2024.
• Crossroads Boulevard — 258 crashes, 9 serious or fatal (3.5%), 1 death. Commerce Drive and Redwood Road tie as its busiest junctions with 52 crashes each, and 3 of the Commerce Drive crashes were serious or fatal.
• Cory B. Wride Memorial Highway (SR-73) — 182 crashes, 6 serious or fatal, 1 death. 56.6% were rear-end collisions. Mountain View Boulevard (54, 2 serious or fatal) and Pioneer Crossing (42) are its busiest junctions.
• Mountain View Boulevard (800 West) — 151 crashes, 2 serious or fatal, no deaths. It had 7 crashes in 2018 and 42 in 2024. Its busiest junction is Cory B. Wride Memorial Highway, with 51.
• Mountain View Highway (SR-85) — 150 crashes, 2 serious or fatal, no deaths. Its first crash in this data came in 2019; it had 40 in both 2023 and 2024. Side impacts are only 7.3% of its crashes, the lowest share on this list, while a vehicle left the roadway in 23.
• Thunder Boulevard (200 West) — 89 crashes, 1 serious or fatal, no deaths. 47 occurred at the Westlake High School junction, a teen driver was involved in 65, 73.0%, the highest teen share among these ten, and 84 happened in daylight.
• Exchange Drive (250 West) — 83 crashes, 3 serious or fatal, no deaths. Its 3.6% serious-or-fatal share is the highest among the city's fifteen busiest streets. 36 of its crashes, 2 of them serious or fatal, were at Crossroads Boulevard.
• Commerce Drive (160 East) — 80 crashes, 2 serious or fatal, no deaths. It has the highest shares on this list for side impacts (55.0%), a disregarded signal or sign (20.0%) and hit-and-run (11.3%). Crossroads Boulevard (42) is its busiest junction.

These ten streets hold 3,175 crashes, 73.7% of the street total, plus 70 of the 90 serious or fatal crashes and 11 of the 13 deaths. Redwood Road alone has more crashes than the next five streets on the list combined.

Smaller Streets, Higher Severity

By serious or fatal crashes, Redwood Road (29) and Pioneer Crossing (10) stay first and second, Crossroads Boulevard rises from fourth to third with 9, and Pony Express Parkway and Cory B. Wride Memorial Highway follow with 6 each. Measured as a share of each street's crashes, though, the leaders are smaller streets in the commercial district: Exchange Drive at 3.6% and Crossroads Boulevard at 3.5%, followed by Cory B. Wride Memorial Highway at 3.3%. Redwood Road's share is 2.0%.

Commuter Collisions in a Fast-Growing City

Rear-end crashes make up 46.9% of the city's street crashes, against 30.2% across the seven counties, the highest share among the 57 cities in this data with at least 500 street crashes. They seldom produce the worst injuries: 10 of the 90 serious or fatal crashes were rear-end, while side impacts accounted for 41. Officers flagged a driver disregarding a signal or sign in 27 of the serious or fatal crashes, 30.0%, also the highest share among those 57 cities and well above the 12.3% for the seven counties.

Street crashes rose from 440 in 2018 to 729 in 2023 and 698 in 2024, while the seven-county total fell. Serious or fatal crashes went from 9 in 2018 to 18 in 2024. Mondays have the most crashes, 775, and 15.3% happen between 6 and 9 a.m., against 12.6% regionally. A teen driver was involved in 31.6% of crashes (23.8% regionally), and hit-and-runs were less common, 5.7% against 8.6%.

Almost No Freeway Crashes

No interstate runs through Saratoga Springs, and only 16 crashes in the records occurred on interchange ramps, 10 of them at SR-145, none serious or fatal. That leaves the city's crash picture almost entirely on its streets. Two gaps apply throughout: crashes below Utah's property-damage reporting threshold are not in UDOT's records, and the records stop on August 4, 2025.

What Utah Law Provides After a Saratoga Springs Crash

Medical bills are paid first by personal injury protection, at least $3,000 regardless of fault (Utah Code § 31A-22-307). To claim pain and similar losses from the other driver, the injury has to meet the § 31A-22-309 threshold, which includes a bone fracture, a permanent impairment and medical expenses over $3,000; that threshold does not apply to an uninsured motorist claim. An unidentified driver who left the scene is treated as uninsured (§ 31A-22-305(2)(b)). Fault is shared under § 78B-5-818, and you recover only if the other side's combined fault exceeds yours. Most injury lawsuits must be filed within four years (§ 78B-2-307), and a claim that a city or state road played a part requires written notice of claim within one year (§ 63G-7-402). Our Saratoga Springs car accident and Saratoga Springs personal injury pages explain these claims in more detail, and the statewide guides cover how fault is proven, how to file a PIP claim and the deadline to bring a case.

Recovering Your Losses

• Money losses: medical and therapy costs, prescriptions, income missed during recovery, diminished future earnings, and vehicle damage.
• Quality of life: pain, stress, lost sleep, and the activities and family time an injury takes away.
• Ongoing needs: future treatment, continuing therapy, and in-home help when an injury has lasting effects.

Data and Method Notes

Records: UDOT's public Crash_Locations data for Utah County, every crash type, January 1, 2018 through August 4, 2025, the end of the published data. City limits follow UGRC's current municipal boundaries for all years, so streets annexed during the period are counted throughout. Each crash was assigned to the nearest UGRC Utah Roads segment within 35 meters, preferring the road in the officer's report; across the full data set that assignment matched the report's road for 89% of crashes. Serious or fatal means coded fatal or suspected serious injury. Flags are what the officer recorded, not findings of fault. Comparisons use the seven counties in this data and the 57 cities in it with at least 500 street crashes. Every city we have ranked this way is listed on our statewide page, Utah’s most dangerous roads.