Mesa Personal Injury Lawyers

Mesa logged 8,022 crashes in 2024. Forty-six were fatal. Forty-eight people died. That's the highest crash total of any city in the East Valley. It's not close.

I pull this data from ADOT's Crash Facts report every year. Mesa's numbers tell a specific story. Three major freeways run through the city. US-60, Loop 202, and Loop 101 all converge here. They funnel high-speed traffic onto arterials that weren't designed for the volume they carry.

The US-60 Problem

The Superstition Freeway cuts east-west through Mesa. It's the primary commuter route between the East Valley and downtown Phoenix. It's also a persistent fatal crash corridor. Multiple fatalities on US-60 in 2024 and 2025, including multi-vehicle pileups, rollover crashes, and a motorcyclist killed near Country Club Drive.

The Country Club Drive exit is a known hotspot. Three gas stations, a Walmart, and a Home Depot sit right at the interchange, generating heavy traffic volumes where freeway speed meets surface street congestion. The geometry creates exactly the kind of speed differential that causes rear-end crashes.

Motorcyclists Are Dying at Twice the Rate

This is the number that stands out in Mesa's data. Sixteen motorcyclists were killed in 2024. That's 46 percent of all Mesa traffic fatalities. Nearly half. The city's own Transportation Advisory Board presentation from July 2025 flagged it. Motorcyclist deaths are up from 13 in 2022 to 15 in 2023 to 16 in 2024. Three consecutive years of increases.

Mesa has year-round riding weather. That's part of it. But the crash patterns show something else. Failure to yield is the most common violation in Mesa fatal crashes. It's the violation that kills riders. A car turns left into a rider's path. A driver changes lanes without checking the mirror. The car has a crumple zone. The motorcycle doesn't.

Where Mesa Crashes Concentrate

Over 90 percent of Mesa crashes happen on arterial streets, not freeways. Broadway Road, Southern Avenue, Main Street, Country Club Drive, Dobson Road, and Alma School Road carry the bulk of the volume. MAG's Top 100 Crash-Risk Intersections list puts Dobson Road and University Drive at 86th and 8th Avenue and Alma School Road at 100th.

Mesa adopted a Comprehensive Safety Action Plan with a goal to reduce fatalities and serious injuries by 30 percent by 2030. 175 serious injury crashes happened in 2024, up from 167 the year before. The trend is going the wrong direction.

We Know Mesa's Roads

Our offices are in Buckeye, Maricopa, and Phoenix, but we handle cases across Maricopa County. When Brendan investigates a crash on US-60 or at Country Club and Broadway, he's not starting from scratch. We pull the same ADOT data, the same MAG intersection reports, and the same traffic camera footage that builds the case.

A Mesa crash doesn't only hurt you. It hurts the people around you too. Call (602) 654-0202 or use our contact form. We don't charge unless we recover money for you.