St. George's Most Dangerous Intersections for Pedestrians and Cyclists

How the counts were built: UDOT keeps a pedestrian and bicycle safety model that lists the state's signalized intersections, and 52 of them are inside St. George. We took every crash in UDOT's statewide records from January 1, 2018 to August 4, 2025 that involved a pedestrian or a bicyclist and tied it to whichever of those signals was closest, as long as it lay within 250 feet. That radius is the intersection distance used in the Highway Safety Manual. A crash counts as serious or fatal when UDOT's records give it a severity of Fatal or Suspected Serious Injury.

The result for St. George is 71 pedestrian crashes and 49 bicycle crashes. Fourteen pedestrian crashes, 19.7%, ended in a death or a suspected serious injury. Among bicycle crashes the figure is 1 in 49, or 2.0%. Forty of the 52 signals had at least one crash of either kind; twelve had none.

Pedestrians Bear Almost All of the Serious Harm

Statewide, applying the same counting method to 1,263 signals, 16.7% of pedestrian crashes and 8.9% of bicycle crashes were serious or fatal. St. George sits above the state figure for people on foot and far below it for people on bikes. The one serious or fatal bicycle crash in the city's records happened at Red Cliffs Drive and Mall Drive, a three-leg intersection that also had a serious or fatal pedestrian crash.

The serious pedestrian crashes are scattered rather than concentrated. Those fourteen occurred at 13 different signals, and Sunset Boulevard at Westridge Drive is the only one with two. A signal near the bottom of the ranking below may still be where someone was gravely hurt, so the list is best read as a tally of crashes, not of harm.

Ten St. George Signals With the Most Pedestrian Crashes

Order is by recorded pedestrian crashes, January 2018 to August 4, 2025. When two signals tie, the one with more bicycle crashes goes first, then the one with more serious or fatal pedestrian crashes, then the one UDOT's model estimates has more foot traffic. Daily walker, rider and vehicle figures are model estimates rather than counts.

• Sunset Boulevard (SR-8) & Dixie Drive. Pedestrian crashes: 9, one serious or fatal. Bicycle crashes: 7, none serious or fatal. Only ten signals in UDOT's statewide model recorded more pedestrian crashes, and only five recorded more bicycle crashes.
• St. George Boulevard (SR-34) & Main Street. Pedestrian crashes: 5, one serious or fatal. Bicycle crashes: 2. UDOT estimates about 485 people cross here on foot each day, the most of any St. George signal, and its model lists five schools nearby.
• 700 South & 400 East. Pedestrian crashes: 4, one serious or fatal. Bicycle crashes: 3. A bus stop sits nearby, and estimated foot traffic is about 176 a day.
• Sunset Boulevard (SR-8) & Westridge Drive. Pedestrian crashes: 4, two of them serious or fatal, the most at any signal in the city. Bicycle crashes: 1. The busier of its two roads carries an estimated 27,000 vehicles a day.
• 700 South & 700 East. Pedestrian crashes: 4, none serious or fatal. Bicycle crashes: 0. At about 368 people a day, its estimated foot traffic is second only to St. George Boulevard and Main Street.
• Red Cliffs Drive & Mall Drive. Pedestrian crashes: 3, one serious or fatal. Bicycle crashes: 3, including the only serious or fatal bicycle crash recorded at any St. George signal. It is a three-leg intersection.
• St. George Boulevard (SR-34) & 400 East. Pedestrian crashes: 3. Bicycle crashes: 3. None of the six was serious or fatal.
• St. George Boulevard (SR-34) & 700 East. Pedestrian crashes: 3, one serious or fatal. Bicycle crashes: 1. UDOT's model counts three schools in the vicinity.
• St. George Boulevard (SR-34) & 200 East. Pedestrian crashes: 2. Bicycle crashes: 3. It is one of ten St. George signals where bicycle crashes outnumber pedestrian crashes.
• 700 South & Bluff Street (SR-18). Pedestrian crashes: 2. Bicycle crashes: 3. It ties the previous entry on both counts and places tenth on estimated foot traffic, about 52 a day against 141. Nine more signals also logged 2 pedestrian crashes, each with fewer bicycle crashes.

Four of the ten sit on St. George Boulevard (SR-34), which passes through six modeled signals and accounts for 16 pedestrian and 9 bicycle crashes in all. Seven of the ten involve a numbered state route: SR-8, SR-34 or SR-18. UDOT's model flags none of the city's 52 signals as unlit, and every entry except Red Cliffs Drive at Mall Drive has four legs. The ten hold 39 of the city's 71 pedestrian crashes but only 7 of the 14 that were serious or fatal.

Bicycle Crashes: Frequent, Rarely Severe

Forty-nine bicycle crashes were recorded at 25 different St. George signals. Sunset Boulevard at Dixie Drive leads with 7. Next is 100 South at Bluff Street (SR-18) with 4, a signal that had only one pedestrian crash, followed by five signals at 3 apiece: 700 South at 400 East, Red Cliffs Drive at Mall Drive, St. George Boulevard at 400 East, St. George Boulevard at 200 East, and 700 South at Bluff Street. Forty-eight of the 49 were coded below the serious-injury level. Why the city's bicycle crashes so rarely reach that level is not something the crash counts explain.

Reading UDOT's Exposure Estimates

Alongside its list of signals, UDOT's model carries estimates for each one: how many people walk and ride through on a typical day, how many vehicles use each approach, how many schools and bus stops are close by, and whether the intersection is lit. Those figures describe exposure, not outcomes. The model's predicted crash numbers come from a separate exercise with no stated time window, so this page does not set them beside the recorded counts.

In St. George, the two crossings UDOT estimates are busiest on foot also rank high on the crash list: St. George Boulevard at Main Street (about 485 walkers a day, 5 pedestrian crashes) and 700 South at 700 East (about 368, 4 crashes). The bicycle estimates point somewhere else entirely. The model's busiest riding locations are Dixie Drive at 600 West, at about 22 riders a day, and Dixie Downs Road at Snow Canyon Parkway, at about 21. The first had no recorded crashes of either kind; the second had 2 bicycle crashes. Sunset at Dixie, with 7 bicycle crashes, is estimated at about 8 riders a day.

St. George’s Most Harmful Crashes Came at Night

The pedestrian crashes that did the most damage in St. George happened at night. Of the 17 recorded between 7 p.m. and midnight, 8 were serious or fatal, more than half of the city’s 14. Crashes in the dark were serious or fatal 8 times in 18, about 44 percent, the highest such share among the 20 Utah cities with at least 20 pedestrian crashes at their signals. Of the 48 daylight pedestrian crashes, 5 were.

Bicycle crashes look different: 43 of 49 were in daylight, and unlike most of Utah they did not fade in winter. Counting the complete years 2018 through 2024, November, December and January had 14 of St. George’s 45 bicycle crashes; statewide those three months had 142 of 1,022.

Older Drivers in St. George’s Reports

An older driver was involved in 15 of St. George’s 71 pedestrian crashes, 21 percent, the highest share among those 20 cities; statewide the figure is about 10.5 percent. Older drivers also appear in 10 of the 49 bicycle crashes. Teen drivers were flagged less often, in 7 pedestrian crashes, but 5 of those 7 were serious or fatal.

Whoever was driving, a pedestrian’s first medical bills usually go to personal injury protection, which in Utah pays no less than $3,000 in medical benefits per person (Utah Code § 31A-22-307). Nine of the city’s pedestrian crashes were hit and runs; if that driver is never found, the walker’s claim generally shifts to uninsured motorist coverage, which Utah Code § 31A-22-305 extends to an unidentified vehicle that left the scene.

Low Limits, Serious Crashes

St. George’s worst outcomes did not come on its fastest roads. The 25 signals where neither road is posted above 30 mph account for 37 of the 71 pedestrian crashes and 8 of the 14 serious or fatal ones. St. George Boulevard is posted 30 at Main Street, 400 East, 700 East and 200 East, four of the top ten. Sunset Boulevard, posted 40, carries both the top crash site at Dixie Drive and the city’s worst signal for serious crashes at Westridge Drive.

Thirty miles an hour is not slow for a person on foot. The 2011 AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety study found that a struck pedestrian’s average risk of severe injury reaches 50 percent at an impact speed of 31 mph, and the risk of death reaches 25 percent at 32 mph. The limits here are today’s postings from UDOT and UGRC; no crash record shows how fast a car was actually moving.

Limits of the Data

Crashes more than 250 feet from a signal are not counted, which leaves out mid-block crossings, driveways, trails and parking lots. A crash is assigned to only one signal, the nearest. Counts are crashes, not injured people. Each St. George pedestrian crash is worth about 1.4 points of the citywide severity share, and each bicycle crash about 2, so small gaps between locations should not be over-read. And a crash count says nothing about who was at fault.

After a Crash at One of These Signals

A crossing's history can matter in a claim. Prior crashes at the same location speak to whether a hazard was known, and they can open questions about signal timing, sight lines, markings and lighting, records the city or UDOT keeps and that can be requested. For how St. George claims work in practice, see our St. George pedestrian accident and bicycle accident pages. Statewide, our guides explain how fault is proven, how a PIP claim is filed and how long you have to sue. For every crash type ranked by street, see St. George’s most dangerous roads.

What Compensation Can Cover

• Medical and income: ambulance and hospital bills, surgery, physical therapy, missed paychecks, and reduced earning capacity if the injury limits future work.
• Pain and daily life: physical pain, emotional distress, and the loss of things you did before, from a morning run to riding to work.
• Long-term needs: future surgeries, continuing therapy, mobility equipment, and help at home when recovery is incomplete.

About the Figures

Source: UDOT crash records, January 1, 2018 to August 4, 2025, limited to crashes involving a pedestrian or bicyclist and matched to the closest signal within 250 feet, the Highway Safety Manual intersection distance. Severity: a Fatal or Suspected Serious Injury code counts as serious or fatal. Signal inventory and estimates of walkers, riders, vehicle volumes, nearby schools, bus stops and lighting: UDOT's signalized-intersection pedestrian and bicycle safety model. Statewide comparison: the same method applied to all 1,263 modeled signals. Time, light and season figures and the driver flags come from the same UDOT crash records, with months compared over the complete years 2018 through 2024 only; posted limits come from UDOT’s 2026 state-route speed data and UGRC’s Utah Roads layer. Every city we have counted this way is listed on our statewide page, Utah’s most dangerous intersections.