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If you or someone you love was hit by a car while walking in Hurricane, Utah, BAM Injury Law can help you recover the money you need to heal and rebuild. A pedestrian struck by a vehicle almost never walks away with minor bruises. These are broken-bone, surgery, and traumatic-brain-injury cases, and the insurance company will move fast to blame you and pay as little as possible. We are a Utah personal injury firm serving Hurricane, La Verkin, and Toquerville from our St. George office at 162 N 400 E, Building A #101, about 20 minutes from Hurricane via SR-9 and I-15. Your consultation is free, and you pay us nothing unless we win. Call (435) 351-1788 to talk to a Utah pedestrian accident attorney today.
BAM Injury Law, St. George Office
162 N 400 E, Building A #101
St. George, UT 84770
Phone: (435) 351-1788
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We do not maintain a physical office in Hurricane, and we will not pretend otherwise. Our team serves Hurricane pedestrian clients from St. George, roughly a 20 minute drive on SR-9 west to I-15 Exit 16, and because a pedestrian injury often makes travel painful or impossible, we regularly meet injured clients at their homes in Hurricane, La Verkin, and Toquerville, or at their hospital bedside. See our St. George office page for directions and hours.
The reason pedestrian crashes keep happening in Hurricane comes down to one fact of local geography: the road residents call State Street is not a city street at all. It is State Route 9, a state highway. SR-9 begins at I-15 Exit 16 near Harrisburg Junction and runs straight through Hurricane and La Verkin toward Springdale and Zion National Park. It doubles as the city's commercial main street, so the same corridor that carries highway-speed through-traffic and out-of-state visitors is also where residents park, shop, and cross on foot to reach stores, restaurants, schools, and parks. People are asking a high-speed state route to behave like a neighborhood street, and it does not.
The traffic load on that corridor is heavy and growing. A UDOT planning study for the SR-9 corridor through neighboring La Verkin measured about 16,000 vehicles per day, with forecasts suggesting the corridor may eventually need to carry 35,000 to 40,000 vehicles per day, driven partly by rising Zion visitation and mainly by new development in Hurricane and the communities to the east (UDOT SR-9/SR-17 La Verkin Planning Study, 2022). Hurricane itself is one of Utah's fastest-growing small cities, up from 20,216 residents at the 2020 Census to an estimated 26,891 in 2026, an increase of about 33 percent in six years. More residents and more cars means more people crossing the same overloaded highway on foot.
Then there is the tourist layer. Zion National Park recorded 4,984,525 recreation visits in 2025, ranking it the second most visited national park in the country. Most visitors arriving from I-15 reach Zion on SR-9, straight through Hurricane, and drivers scanning for gas, food, and lodging in an unfamiliar town are exactly the distracted, unpredictable drivers most likely to miss a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
The danger is measurable, not theoretical. Of the 17 people killed in Washington County motor vehicle crashes in 2023, four were pedestrians, according to NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System data. Statewide, roughly one-third of Utah's 281 traffic deaths in 2024 were vulnerable road users, meaning pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists. Hurricane's own State Street produces recurring injury crashes: the intersection of State Street and 2260 West saw at least two injury crashes in 2025 alone, one in April that hurt several people including a child, and another in August involving two vehicles. Every one of those crashes happened on the same surface a Hurricane resident has to step onto to cross the road.
When a pedestrian is seriously hurt in Hurricane, they are typically transported to Intermountain St. George Regional Hospital at 1380 East Medical Center Drive, the Level II trauma center that serves as the major medical referral center for southern Utah, northwestern Arizona, and southeastern Nevada. If a lawsuit becomes necessary, Hurricane pedestrian cases are filed in Utah's Fifth District Court at 206 West Tabernacle Street in St. George. Our office works minutes from both.
A pedestrian case is won or lost on two questions: who had the right of way, and how much of the blame the insurance company can pin on the person who was walking. Utah law gives injured pedestrians real leverage on both, if the case is built correctly and quickly.
Under Utah Code 41-6a-1002, a driver must yield the right of way, slowing down or stopping, to a pedestrian crossing within a crosswalk on the driver's half of the roadway or approaching closely from the other half. A driver must come to a complete stop at an occupied school crosswalk, and it is illegal to pass a vehicle that has stopped for a pedestrian. When a driver violates one of these rules and hits someone, that violation is powerful evidence of negligence. The flip side matters too: a pedestrian may not suddenly leave a curb into the path of a vehicle that cannot stop in time. This is why the single most important fact in a Hurricane pedestrian case is often whether the person was in a marked or unmarked crosswalk when they were struck, and locking down that evidence before it disappears is the core of the work.
Insurance adjusters almost always argue that the pedestrian was jaywalking, crossing outside a crosswalk, distracted by a phone, or wearing dark clothing. They do this to shift blame onto the injured person, because Utah follows a modified comparative fault rule with a 50 percent bar under Utah Code 78B-5-818. If you are found less than 50 percent at fault, you still recover, but your award is reduced by your own percentage of blame. If they can push your share to 50 percent or more, you recover nothing. That is why beating the comparative-fault argument, with crosswalk status, signal timing, the driver's speed, and proof of driver distraction, is not a side issue. It is the case.
Utah is a no-fault state for auto insurance. A pedestrian struck by a car is typically covered first by the striking vehicle's Personal Injury Protection (PIP) benefits, which pay initial medical bills and lost wages regardless of fault, with a statutory minimum of $3,000 per person. To reach the at-fault driver's liability coverage for pain and suffering and the rest of your damages, your injury must clear the threshold in Utah Code 31A-22-309: more than $3,000 in medical expense, a bone fracture, permanent disability or impairment established by objective findings, permanent disfigurement, dismemberment, or death. Pedestrian-versus-vehicle impacts routinely clear that threshold, which is exactly why documenting the permanence of your injuries with imaging and impairment ratings is so important.
If the driver fled the scene or had no insurance, your own Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist (UM/UIM) coverage often becomes the real source of recovery, and Utah's PIP threshold does not bar an uninsured-motorist claim. Pedestrians are frequently covered under a household auto policy's UM coverage even though they were on foot. Finding every available policy is a core investigation step in your case, not a footnote.
Utah law lets an injured pedestrian recover economic damages (past and future medical treatment, lost wages, lost earning capacity, and out-of-pocket costs) and non-economic damages (pain and suffering, physical impairment, disfigurement, and loss of enjoyment of life) once the threshold is met. In a case where a pedestrian is killed, Utah law gives surviving family members a wrongful death claim for funeral costs, lost financial support, and loss of companionship, and that claim carries a shorter two-year deadline. You can read more on our Hurricane wrongful death lawyer page.
Most Utah pedestrian injury claims must be filed within four years of the date of injury under Utah Code 78B-2-307. If a pedestrian is killed, the wrongful death deadline is shorter, two years under Utah Code 78B-2-304. And if a government entity may be responsible, for example a dangerous crosswalk design, a malfunctioning signal, or a government vehicle, you must file a formal notice of claim within one year under Utah Code 63G-7-402. These deadlines are hard cutoffs. Miss one and the strongest case in the world is worth nothing, so the earlier you talk to a lawyer, the more we can do.
BAM Injury Law (Benzion and Martineau Injury Law, PLLC) is built around one promise: you pay nothing unless we win. Attorney Kigan I. Martineau leads our Utah practice and the firm's southern Utah injury work through our St. George office. A pedestrian case is won on reconstruction and the crosswalk fight, and that is exactly where we go to work: we send preservation letters for intersection, business, and doorbell camera footage before it is overwritten, pull signal-timing and vehicle black-box data, track down independent witnesses to the light color and crosswalk status, and bring in accident reconstruction and medical experts when a case demands it. We handle the insurance company so you can focus on healing.
Last reviewed by Kigan I. Martineau, Utah personal injury attorney, on July 13, 2026.
Most Utah pedestrian injury claims must be filed within four years of the injury under Utah Code 78B-2-307. If a pedestrian was killed, the wrongful death deadline is shorter, two years under Utah Code 78B-2-304. If a government entity may be at fault, such as a dangerous crosswalk or a malfunctioning signal, you must file a notice of claim within one year under Utah Code 63G-7-402. Because deadlines vary by claim type, talk to a lawyer as early as you can.
Often, yes. Utah uses a modified comparative fault rule with a 50 percent bar under Utah Code 78B-5-818. As long as you are found less than 50 percent at fault, you can still recover, though your award is reduced by your share of the blame. If your fault reaches 50 percent or more, you recover nothing, which is why the insurance company works so hard to blame you. Crossing outside a crosswalk raises your exposure but does not automatically end your claim, especially if the driver was speeding, distracted, or impaired.
Utah is a no-fault state, so the striking vehicle's Personal Injury Protection (PIP) coverage typically pays your first medical bills and lost wages regardless of fault, with a minimum of $3,000 per person under Utah Code 31A-22-307. To pursue the at-fault driver's liability coverage for pain and suffering and the rest of your damages, your injury must clear the threshold in Utah Code 31A-22-309, which most serious pedestrian injuries do.
Your own Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist (UM/UIM) coverage can apply, and Utah's PIP threshold does not bar an uninsured-motorist claim. Even though you were on foot, you are often covered under a household auto policy's UM coverage. Identifying every available policy is one of the first things we do, because in hit-and-run and uninsured-driver cases it is frequently the real source of your recovery.
No, and we will not pretend otherwise. Our nearest office is in St. George at 162 N 400 E, Building A #101, about 20 minutes from Hurricane via SR-9 and I-15. Because a pedestrian injury often makes travel difficult, most of our work with Hurricane clients happens by phone and video, and we make home and hospital visits throughout Washington County.
It depends on your medical bills, lost income, future treatment needs, the permanence of your injuries, the strength of the crosswalk and right-of-way evidence, any comparative fault, and the insurance coverage available. No honest lawyer can quote a number before reviewing your case. Our guide on how much a Utah personal injury case is worth walks through the factors that matter, and a free case review gives you a realistic range for your situation.
Camera footage gets overwritten, witnesses move, and insurance deadlines run whether you are ready or not. If you or a family member was hit while walking in Hurricane, call our St. George office now at (435) 351-1788 or request your free consultation online. You pay nothing unless we win. Learn more about how we serve the area on our Hurricane personal injury lawyer hub, our related Hurricane car accident lawyer and Hurricane motorcycle accident lawyer pages, or our statewide Utah pedestrian accident attorney page.
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