The 10 Most Dangerous Intersections in Gilbert, According to Two Years of ADOT Data

Gilbert's crash concentrations run down one road. In the Metro Phoenix Dangerous Intersections Study — the two-year ADOT-data analysis published by our sister outlet AZ Crash Data — Higley Road anchors half of the town's highest-crash list. Here are Gilbert's ten highest-crash intersections for 2023-2024, exactly as the study ranks them.

Gilbert

| Rank | Intersection | Crashes | People injured | Deaths | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | Germann Rd & Higley Rd | 57 | 27 | 2 | | 2 | Baseline Rd & Higley Rd | 55 | 13 | 0 | | 3 | Higley Rd & Warner Rd | 50 | 19 | 1 | | 4 | Elliot Rd & McQueen Rd | 49 | 27 | 0 | | 5 | Baseline Rd & Val Vista Dr | 44 | 13 | 0 | | 6 | Higley Rd & Pecos Rd | 42 | 19 | 0 | | 7 | Lindsay Rd & Ray Rd | 42 | 15 | 0 | | 8 | Higley Rd & Williams Field Rd | 40 | 11 | 0 | | 9 | Elliot Rd & Val Vista Dr | 38 | 21 | 0 | | 10 | Lindsay Rd & Warner Rd | 38 | 13 | 0 |

What stands out in the Gilbert data

• Higley Road appears five times — at Germann, Baseline, Warner, Pecos, and Williams Field — half the town's top ten on a single north-south arterial, matching the strongest corridor concentration we've seen anywhere in the study (Mesa's Southern Avenue).
• The Higley corridor also carries the severity: all three deaths in Gilbert's table happened at Higley crossings — two at Germann & Higley, the town's #1, and one at Higley & Warner.
• The rest of the list is a tight band: positions 4 through 10 sit within 11 crashes of each other, spread across the Elliot, Val Vista, and Lindsay grid — diffuse suburban exposure rather than a second hot corridor.

Reading this as a driver

For Gilbert drivers the data reads simply: the Higley Road spine is where concentrated crash risk lives, and it is also where the fatalities were. Generous gaps on unprotected lefts, a beat after the green, and measured speeds on Higley's wide suburban stretches match what the numbers show.

The full regional study — top-25 regional table, deadliest crossings, and per-city tables for a dozen Valley cities — is available at AZ Crash Data.

Data: ADOT crash-level records, 2023-2024, via the AZ Crash Data intersections study. Crash records describe where collisions occurred, not who was at fault. Safe Roads AZ and AZ Crash Data are both published by Ironwood Media Group LLC.