A 39-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman were hospitalized in critical condition after a pickup truck struck them while they were walking in a crosswalk near 2400 South Redwood Road in West Valley City. The crash happened around 1:10 a.m., and investigators say the driver actually had a green light at the time.
According to FOX 13 News Utah, police confirmed the pair were legally in the crosswalk when they were hit, even though the traffic signal favored the driver. The 54-year-old driver of the Ford F-150 involved in the crash stayed at the scene and has been cooperating with investigators, the station reports. Officers shut down the area for nearly an hour and a half, with traffic reopening around 2:45 a.m.
No citations, charges, or findings of fault in the crash have been reported.
A Troubling Pattern on Utah Roads
The Redwood Road crash adds to a grim tally of pedestrian injuries and deaths piling up across Utah this year. The state logged 24 auto-pedestrian collisions in 2026 so far, eight of them fatal, per data cited by ABC4. The outlet also reported that Utah saw 159 auto-pedestrian collisions in 2025 alone, resulting in 41 deaths, and that intersections statewide recorded 825 serious-injury collisions that year — the highest total in the eight years the Utah Department of Transportation has tracked the figure.
Pedestrian safety advocates and law enforcement have been sounding the alarm for months. The same report that recorded 976 pedestrian-involved crashes and 35 pedestrian deaths in Utah through early December 2025 also found that more than half of those crashes happened in intersections or marked crosswalks, according to KSL.com. That same account noted pedestrian fatalities in Utah consistently climb during fall and winter, with December historically ranking among the worst months on record.
Other Recent Crashes in West Valley City
This is not the first serious pedestrian crash the city has seen in recent weeks. Earlier this month, 62-year-old Rigoberto Castillo-Hernandez died after being struck by two vehicles on the Mountain View Corridor at 4800 South, KSL.com reported. In February, two pedestrians were hospitalized after back-to-back collisions at the intersection of 4700 South and 5600 West, with a second vehicle striking both a juvenile and an adult witness before fleeing in a dark-colored SUV, per the same ABC4 account referenced above.
A separate 2021 crash in West Valley City left a man hospitalized in what KSL.com described at the time as very poor condition after he was struck while crossing 3400 South near 1400 West. The repeated incidents underscore how often pedestrians along the city's wide arterial roads have ended up seriously hurt or killed, even in marked crosswalks.
No further details on the condition of the two pedestrians hurt early Tuesday have been released.
