I-215 at Redwood Road and 4700 South
Freeway traffic, tractor-trailers included, empties onto surface streets at these interchanges. Crashes cluster where trucks slow to exit or build speed to merge while cars weave around them.
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Taylorsville's Truck Corridors
I-215 crosses Taylorsville and Bangerter Highway runs along its west side, so trucks serving stores and warehouses across the valley pass through the city all day. Most heavy-vehicle crashes here happen on the handful of roads below.
Redwood Road
A state route with long signal cycles and dense retail frontage. Delivery trucks turning left across several lanes, and trailers that hide oncoming traffic from waiting drivers, figure in many collisions.
5400 South
Shopping centers line the corridor between Bangerter and Redwood Road, and box trucks and grocery semis make wide turns into their lots. Rear-end impacts with a truck stopped to turn are common.
Bangerter Highway
Freeway-style interchanges on the city's west side carry fast traffic, and a heavy truck climbing a ramp from a stop gains speed slowly. Merge and lane-position disputes are the usual fight.
Around the SLCC Redwood Campus
Salt Lake Community College's Taylorsville Redwood Campus at 4600 South Redwood Road draws student drivers, bus riders and pedestrians into the same space as delivery traffic. Right-turning trucks and people in crosswalks are a dangerous combination.
Report and road ownership
Taylorsville Police handle crashes on city streets, and the Utah Highway Patrol takes I-215. Redwood Road is a state route, so a signal failure or work zone there can involve UDOT, and a claim against a government entity requires a notice of claim within one year under Utah Code § 63G-7-402.
No-Fault Benefits After a Taylorsville Truck Crash
Your own personal injury protection pays first in Utah, whoever caused the crash. Utah Code § 31A-22-307 sets the floor at $3,000 of medical expenses, plus 85% of lost gross income up to $250 a week for a maximum of 52 weeks. How PIP works.
Serious truck injuries from Taylorsville are commonly treated at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, a Level I trauma center, where a single admission can exhaust PIP. To pursue the trucking company's insurer for pain and lost quality of life, Utah Code § 31A-22-309 requires one of the following:
- Medical bills above $3,000
- A fractured bone
- Permanent impairment or disability shown by objective medical findings
- Permanent disfigurement
- Dismemberment
- The death of the injured person
With any one of them, the at-fault side's liability coverage is responsible for the full claim. If the truck was uninsured or carried too little, your own UM or UIM coverage can fill the gap, and the threshold does not limit an uninsured motorist claim.
How Utah Splits Fault
Utah Code § 78B-5-818 reduces your award by your share of fault and bars it unless the defendants' combined fault is greater than yours. At 30% responsible you keep 70%; at 50% you keep nothing.
Expect the carrier to argue that you lingered beside the trailer through the I-215 weave or turned in front of a truck on Redwood Road. The truck's inspection history, discussed below, can move that argument back toward the company.
Time limits
Four years for most crash-injury lawsuits (§ 78B-2-307); two years for wrongful death (§ 78B-2-304); one year to serve notice on UDOT, UTA, Salt Lake County or Taylorsville City. Utah deadlines explained.
Inspection Records and Out-of-Service Orders
The end-of-day defect report
At the end of each day's work, a driver must report in writing any defect found in the brakes, steering, lights, tires, mirrors, coupling devices, wheels or emergency equipment that would affect safe operation (49 CFR 396.11(a)). Before the truck runs again, the carrier must repair a safety defect and certify the repair.
Roadside inspections
A truck declared out of service because its mechanical condition or load would likely cause a crash or breakdown may not be driven until the listed repairs are complete (49 CFR 396.9(c)). Within 15 days the carrier must certify that the violations were corrected and keep a copy of the inspection report for 12 months (49 CFR 396.9(d)).
Drivers pulled off the road
A driver who is over the hours limits, or lacks a current record of duty status for the day and the prior seven days, can be ordered out of service, and the carrier may not let that driver drive until it is lawful again (49 CFR 395.13). A prior order can show a pattern.
Why the history matters
A defect written up days earlier and never repaired turns a driver-error case into a claim against the company itself. Our truck accident claims guide explains how carrier liability is built.
Unidentified trucks
If a truck forced you off I-215 and drove on, uninsured motorist coverage on your policy may respond. Where there was no contact, Utah Code § 31A-22-305(6) requires clear and convincing proof beyond your own word that the truck existed, so gather witness names fast.
What To Do After a Taylorsville Truck Crash
- Call 911 and note whether Taylorsville Police or the Highway Patrol responded, along with the case number.
- Get medical care the same day. Signs of a brain or spinal injury can take hours to appear.
- Photograph the truck's door, trailer number, any inspection decal, the tires and lights, and the lane where it stopped.
- Ask other drivers and people waiting at bus stops for names and phone numbers before they leave.
- Start your PIP claim, and hold off on a recorded statement to the trucking company's insurer.
Taylorsville truck cases that must be filed go to the Third Judicial District Court for Salt Lake County, at the Matheson Courthouse, 450 South State Street, or the West Jordan courthouse at 8080 South Redwood Road. Most settle, but the carrier should receive a written preservation demand for its inspection reports and maintenance files right away. Call (801) 921-5134 or request a free case review. Free consultation. No attorney fees unless we win. Hablamos Español. Related: our Taylorsville car accident page, our Taylorsville personal injury page and how injury attorneys handle insurance claims.
General information about Utah law for people hurt in Taylorsville, not legal advice. Results depend on the facts of each case, and earlier outcomes do not predict later ones.