An 11-year-old girl was taken to the hospital with serious injuries Wednesday after a car struck her while she was riding a bicycle on Redwood Road in West Valley City.
West Valley City police told KSL that a northbound car hit the girl after she rode into an intersection. Police said the car was traveling through a green light. The driver and a witness stayed at the scene.
ABC4 identified the crossing as Redwood Road and 4200 South. The reporting does not go beyond that account of how she entered the intersection, and it does not describe a citation or a finding of fault.
Taken to Primary Children's
After the crash, the girl was sent to Primary Children's Hospital with serious injuries, KSL reported. No later medical update is part of that account. KSL said the story will be updated.
What is public so far is a police description of the collision, not a completed investigation. Serious injuries at 11 years old is the fact that matters on its own. The rest of the legal picture has not been laid out in the reporting.
A road with a recent crash
This is not the only bicycle crash police have described on Redwood Road in West Valley City this fall. On Oct. 17, a 43-year-old cyclist was struck at Redwood Road and 3500 South. KUTV reported that police expected that cyclist to make a full recovery.
That October crash was a different set of facts. Police said a southbound white Jeep Compass ran a red light, hit the cyclist and multiple other vehicles, and the driver left. Kim Collier, 65, was later arrested and booked on a Class A misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of an accident involving injury. In Wednesday's crash, police said the driver stayed.
Older reports put other serious collisions on the same corridor. In a January 2017 account, FOX 13 said a bicyclist was in extremely critical condition after an SUV hit him; investigators said he crossed Redwood Road at 3800 South against a red light and a northbound vehicle struck him. A KSL report posted Dec. 30, 2011, said a 7-year-old girl was hit near 3885 South and Redwood Road and flown to Primary Children's Hospital in critical condition. Those cases are not this one. They do show how often a child or a person on a bike has ended up in a West Valley trauma bay after a Redwood Road collision.
The statewide numbers behind one intersection
A Hoodline report on an earlier Redwood Road crash said that from 2020 through 2024, 2,575 bicyclists were involved in Utah motor-vehicle crashes, 92% were injured, and 45 died. Wednesday's crash is one girl, one intersection, and a hospital admission. Those five-year figures are the larger count those individual trips sit inside.
For now, the public record of Nov. 11 is short: an 11-year-old on a bike, a northbound car through a green light at Redwood Road and 4200 South, serious injuries, and a driver who remained at the scene. Any change in her condition, or any later police action, would have to come in an update that has not been published yet.
