Goodyear Personal Injury Lawyers

I drive through Goodyear every time I take I-10 between our Buckeye office and Phoenix. The Litchfield Road interchange. The Estrella Parkway exit. The Bullard Avenue merge. I know where traffic stacks up. I know where the speed differential between trucks and cars gets dangerous.

Goodyear logged 10,000 traffic crashes on its roadways between 2018 and 2024. Fifty-nine fatal. 170 serious injuries. The city is developing a Road Safety Action Plan for 2026, collecting public input on which corridors need intervention. The data already tells the story.

I-10 Through Goodyear: The Freight Corridor

The I-10 corridor through Goodyear carries roughly 48 percent truck traffic between Loop 303 and Tonopah. Nearly half the vehicles on this stretch are commercial. Speed limits hit 65 mph inside Goodyear and jump to 75 west of Estrella Parkway. Trucks run at 65 across both zones.

That speed differential is the problem. Passenger vehicles stack up behind semis and try to pass in tight windows. The closing speeds are unforgiving. I wrote a full investigation on the I-10 crash data for Buckeye and Goodyear with intersection-level breakdowns and ADOT's fatality rate analysis.

The truck crash data for Maricopa County shows 14,069 trucks involved in Arizona crashes in 2024. The chameleon carriers investigation explains why some of those trucks have safety records that don't match their actual history.

Growth Without Infrastructure

Goodyear's population grew from roughly 95,000 in 2020 to over 115,000 in 2024. Palm Valley, Estrella, Canyon Trails, and PebbleCreek are all generating thousands of daily vehicle trips on roads that weren't designed for this volume.

The I-10 and Bullard Avenue interchange, the I-10 and Litchfield Road interchange, and the I-10 and Dysart Road interchange all show increasing crash frequency year over year in ADOT's data. Walmart built a $152 million distribution facility near I-10 and Loop 101, adding more truck traffic to the mix.

Goodyear faces the same infrastructure lag that's hitting Buckeye. New homes go up in 18 months. Road improvements take three to five years. Crashes happen in the gap.

Pedestrian Safety in the Suburbs

Arizona's pedestrian fatality rate is 3.6 per 100,000 residents, nearly twice the national average. The pedestrian deaths investigation I published shows that 76 percent of pedestrian fatalities happen in darkness on wide arterials designed for vehicle speed, not pedestrian safety.

Goodyear's arterials fit that profile. Wide lanes, high speed limits, residential developments feeding onto roads with no sidewalks or crosswalks. Evening hours are the deadliest. Arizona's summer heat pushes outdoor activity to the evening. Road conditions are most dangerous for people on foot at precisely that time.

Ten Minutes From Our Office

Our headquarters is in Buckeye. Goodyear residents are typically 10 to 15 minutes away. When I investigate a crash on Litchfield Road or at the Estrella Parkway interchange, I'm driving down the street, not across the Valley.

Three people work your case. I investigate the scene and build the evidence. Brandon Millam handles the legal strategy. Stephanie Ramirez keeps you updated. That trio works the same way whether the crash happened on I-10, on a Goodyear surface street, or in a parking lot on Litchfield Road.

If you or someone in your family was in a crash in Goodyear, call (602) 654-0202 or use our contact form. The consultation is free. We don't charge unless we recover money for you.