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

Published October 4, 2026

Scottsdale's table in the Metro Phoenix Dangerous Intersections Study — the two-year ADOT-data analysis published by our sister outlet AZ Crash Data — looks different from the rest of the Valley's in one notable way. Here are the city's ten highest-crash intersections for 2023-2024, exactly as the study ranks them.

Scottsdale

| Rank | Intersection | Crashes | People injured | Deaths | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | Hayden Rd & Northsight Blvd | 54 | 6 | 0 | | 2 | Hayden Rd & Thomas Rd | 48 | 33 | 0 | | 3 | Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd & Pima Rd | 47 | 24 | 0 | | 4 | Hayden Rd & McDowell Rd | 45 | 23 | 0 | | 5 | Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd & Hayden Rd | 45 | 20 | 0 | | 6 | 90th St & Shea Blvd | 44 | 16 | 0 | | 7 | Cactus Rd & Scottsdale Rd | 41 | 21 | 0 | | 8 | Pinnacle Peak Rd & Scottsdale Rd | 39 | 22 | 0 | | 9 | Indian School Rd & Scottsdale Rd | 35 | 28 | 0 | | 10 | 92nd St & Shea Blvd | 35 | 9 | 0 |

What stands out in the Scottsdale data

  • Zero deaths across the entire top ten — Scottsdale is the only city we've profiled from the study so far where the highest-crash list produced no fatalities over the two years.
  • Hayden Road appears four times (Northsight, Thomas, McDowell, and Frank Lloyd Wright), including the city's #1 crossing, and Scottsdale Road adds three more — seven of ten entries sit on just two north-south corridors.
  • The #1 intersection is a low-severity outlier. Hayden & Northsight logged the most crashes (54) but only 6 injuries — a profile that often reflects lower-speed congestion crashes. Compare Hayden & Thomas: fewer crashes (48) but 33 people injured.

Reading this as a driver

The data suggests Scottsdale's concentrated crash risk lives on the Hayden and Scottsdale Road spines. The habits that match it cost nothing: generous gaps on unprotected lefts, a beat after the green, and extra patience through the airpark-area congestion where the counts run highest.

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.

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