Utah Car Accidents Today — Live Reports & Statistics
Quick answer: Utah recorded 277 motor vehicle crash deaths in 2024 — about 0.8 a day, 7.9 per 100,000 people (well below the US average, rank #45 of 51). 0 Utah accident reports tracked in the last 48 hours are listed below. Emergency number: 911.
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northeast, Idaho to the north, and Nevada to the west.
- Capital
- Salt Lake City
- Population
- 3,271,616 (2020)
- Area
- 219,653 km²
- Crash deaths 2024
- 277
- Deaths / 100k
- 7.9
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Utah Accident News — Last 48 Hours
No headline naming Utah or its major cities in the last 48 hours of monitored coverage. Nationwide reports are on the United States page; the window refreshes every 15 minutes.
Live traffic cameras in Utah
Public traffic-camera snapshots nearest to the latest geocoded reports on this page, straight from the transport authority. Images refresh on their own schedule (seconds to minutes); a camera is picked by distance and is not necessarily pointed at the incident.
Camera data: UDOT Traffic (Utah Department of Transportation) (all 2,082 cameras). Snapshots are served by the authority and are not stored by this site. Cameras marked Live video play inline; the rest are still images refreshed by the authority.
Road Safety in Utah
With a population of 3,503,613 and 36,160 million vehicle miles travelled, Utah recorded 277 crash deaths in 2024: 7.9 per 100,000 people and 0.77 per 100 million miles. Speeding was a factor in 30% of those deaths.
By road user: pedestrians 15%, motorcyclists 19%, bicyclists 3%.
About 73 deaths (26%) were in crashes involving a driver at or over the 0.08% alcohol limit, and 18 of those killed were teenagers aged 15–19. Compare: drunk driving deaths by state · teen deaths by state.
Source: NHTSA FARS 2024 via IIHS state-by-state tables. National context: US road deaths by year.
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States With a Similar Death Rate
| State | Rank | Deaths 2024 | Per 100k | Per 100M miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #45 | 277 | 7.9 | 0.77 |
| Pennsylvania | #42 | 1,127 | 8.6 | 1.18 |
| Connecticut | #43 | 310 | 8.4 | 1 |
| Minnesota | #44 | 477 | 8.2 | 0.81 |
| Hawaii | #46 | 102 | 7.1 | 0.96 |
| New Jersey | #47 | 670 | 7.1 | 0.84 |
| District of Columbia | #48 | 47 | 6.7 | 1.33 |