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

Queen Creek closes out our city-by-city series from the Metro Phoenix Dangerous Intersections Study — the two-year ADOT-data analysis published by our sister outlet AZ Crash Data — and its table looks exactly like what it is: a fast-growing town whose crash activity funnels through one corridor. Here are the ten highest-crash intersections for 2023-2024, exactly as the study ranks them.

Queen Creek

| Rank | Intersection | Crashes | People injured | Deaths | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | Ellsworth Loop Rd & Rittenhouse Rd | 63 | 26 | 0 | | 2 | Ellsworth Loop Rd & Ellsworth Rd | 28 | 11 | 0 | | 3 | Combs Rd & Gantzel Rd | 28 | 10 | 0 | | 4 | Victoria Ln & Ellsworth Loop Rd | 25 | 12 | 0 | | 5 | Riggs Rd & Rittenhouse Rd | 23 | 8 | 0 | | 6 | Ellsworth Rd & Ryan Rd | 23 | 6 | 0 | | 7 | Ellsworth Rd & Rittenhouse Rd | 22 | 15 | 0 | | 8 | Hawes Rd & Ocotillo Rd | 21 | 15 | 0 | | 9 | Chandler Heights Rd & Power Rd | 18 | 11 | 0 | | 10 | Rittenhouse Rd & Sossaman Rd | 18 | 8 | 0 |

What stands out in the Queen Creek data

• One crossing is in a class of its own: Ellsworth Loop & Rittenhouse logged 63 crashes — more than double the second-ranked entry — where the town-center retail loop meets the diagonal Rittenhouse arterial.
• The Ellsworth and Rittenhouse corridors carry almost the whole list: Ellsworth Road or Ellsworth Loop appears in five entries and Rittenhouse in four — the town's main growth spine accounts for nearly everything.
• Zero deaths across the top ten, and totals well below the big cities' — the #1 crossing here would not crack Phoenix's top ten. These are per-city rankings, and Queen Creek's scale reflects a town still building out its grid.

Reading this as a driver

For Queen Creek drivers the note is short: the town-center loop and the Rittenhouse diagonal are where the crash activity concentrates, and diagonal crossings carry longer exposure through the intersection. Patience at the loop's retail turn-ins and generous gaps on unprotected lefts match what the data shows.

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.