The Most Dangerous Roads in Arlington: Cooper St, SH 360 and I-20

Short answer: Arlington and the area within 15 miles of its city limits, 2021–2025: 309,394 crashes and 1,935 deaths. On roads in Arlington or within 5 miles of its city limits, I-20 had the most crashes, followed by SH 360 and I-30. Inside city limits, Cooper Street (FM 157) had the most crashes of any road from 2021 to 2025: 4,285.

Arlington sits between Fort Worth and Dallas, and its crash numbers reflect it: the wider area reaches well into Dallas County. Inside the city, three roads stand out in our data and in the Jim Ross Law analysis below: Cooper Street, SH 360 and I-20.

Source for crash figures on this page: Original analysis of TxDOT CRIS data, 2021–2025, Arlington and the area within 15 miles of the city limits. How it was done.

Roads with the most crashes in and near Arlington

I-20 had the most crashes on roads in Arlington or within 5 miles of its city limits from 2021 to 2025. This view sticks to roads close to Arlington: 94,140 crashes and 576 deaths in five years.

Intersections with the most crashes near Arlington

Where two highways meet, the "intersection" is the whole interchange, including frontage roads, as police recorded it.

Inside Arlington city limits

Inside city limits alone, Arlington had 30,598 crashes, 192 deaths and 1,069 suspected serious injuries from 2021 to 2025.

City-limits crashes by year, top roads and intersections

	Crashes	Injury crashes (K/A/B/C)	Fatal crashes	Deaths	Suspected serious injuries
2021	6,943	3,086	51	54	211
2022	6,301	2,890	26	26	213
2023	6,147	2,868	41	42	223
2024	5,740	2,646	36	39	204
2025	5,467	2,549	31	31	218
Total	30,598	14,039	185	192	1069

Share of crashes with any injury (K/A/B/C): 45.9%

	Crashes	Injury crashes (K/A/B/C)	Fatal crashes	Deaths	Suspected serious injuries
FM 157 (Cooper St)	4,285	2,066	22	22	141
SH 360	3,722	1,707	17	17	113
I-20	3,644	1,716	28	29	137
I-30	2,254	1,017	16	16	102
SH 180	1,056	537	14	15	54
Matlock Rd	1,043	541	4	4	32
Spur 303	993	536	9	9	30
Green Oaks Blvd	984	462	12	12	45
US 287	744	314	4	5	37
Park Row Dr	632	332	4	4	21

Intersection	Crashes	Injury crashes (K/A/B/C)	Fatal crashes	Deaths	Suspected serious injuries
FM 157 (Cooper St) & I-20	513	273	3	3	8
FM 157 (Cooper St) & I-30	470	253	4	4	21
I-30 & SH 360	325	153	2	2	11
FM 157 (Cooper St) & SH 180	315	158	1	1	8
FM 157 (Cooper St) & Spur 303	222	133	5	5	8
SH 360 & Spur 303	219	124	1	1	8
SH 180 & SH 360	192	105	3	3	11
I-20 & Matlock Rd	149	99	0	0	4
FM 157 (Cooper St) & Green Oaks Blvd	146	83	0	0	2
Mayfield Rd & SH 360	141	72	0	0	4

Arlington and the area within 15 miles of its city limits, 2021–2025

Across Arlington and the area within 15 miles of its city limits, police reported 309,394 crashes from 2021 to 2025, with 1,935 people killed and 10,010 suspected serious injuries. Crashes by county: Tarrant 150,884, Dallas 138,561, Denton 8,143, Johnson 7,637, Ellis 4,169.

Top roads and intersections across Arlington and the area within 15 miles of its city limits, how crashes happen, and road conditions

	Crashes	Injury crashes (K/A/B/C)	Fatal crashes	Deaths	Suspected serious injuries
I-35E	23,008	6,066	150	168	581
I-30	14,751	4,784	114	121	529
I-20	14,297	4,874	118	125	430
I-35W	11,820	3,558	89	102	339
SH 183	9,894	3,683	65	66	341
I-820 (Loop 820)	8,697	2,999	63	71	260
SH 360	6,428	2,586	30	31	181
SH 121	6,190	2,375	39	39	207
Loop 12	6,120	2,284	51	53	233
FM 157 (Cooper St)	5,162	2,421	30	30	175

Intersection	Crashes	Injury crashes (K/A/B/C)	Fatal crashes	Deaths	Suspected serious injuries
I-35E & Spur 366	715	227	9	9	31
Business 287 & I-35W	671	284	9	9	30
I-20 & I-35W	670	219	3	3	17
Business 287 & SH 183	649	204	4	4	22
I-30 & SH 199	604	222	0	0	16
I-35E & SH 183	596	192	3	4	14
I-30 & I-820 (Loop 820)	584	217	1	1	19
FM 157 (Cooper St) & I-20	513	273	3	3	8
I-35E & SH 121	497	183	4	4	11
FM 157 (Cooper St) & I-30	470	253	4	4	21

Rear-end type (same direction with one vehicle stopped, or both going straight, rear end): 80,690 (26.1%)

• One Motor Vehicle - Going Straight: 60,962 (19.7%)
• Same Direction - Both Going Straight-Rear End: 46,020 (14.9%)
• Same Direction - Both Going Straight-Sideswipe: 43,807 (14.2%)
• Angle - Both Going Straight: 39,370 (12.7%)
• Same Direction - One Straight-One Stopped: 34,325 (11.1%)
• Opposite Direction - One Straight-One Left Turn: 28,026 (9.1%)
• Angle - One Straight-One Left Turn: 13,385 (4.3%)
• Angle - One Straight-One Right Turn: 6,699 (2.2%)

Light

• 1 - Daylight: 196,789 (63.6%)
• 3 - Dark, Lighted: 82,241 (26.6%)
• 2 - Dark, Not Lighted: 17,917 (5.8%)
• 6 - Dusk: 4,019 (1.3%)
• 4 - Dark, Unknown Lighting: 3,701 (1.2%)

Weather

• 1 - Clear: 247,632 (80.0%)
• 2 - Cloudy: 33,916 (11.0%)
• 3 - Rain: 23,775 (7.7%)
• 99 - Unknown: 1,280 (0.4%)
• 4 - Sleet/Hail: 927 (0.3%)

Surface

• 1 - Dry: 270,033 (87.3%)
• 2 - Wet: 33,462 (10.8%)
• 6 - Ice: 2,286 (0.7%)
• 3 - Standing Water: 1,426 (0.5%)

Arlington’s most dangerous intersections: the Jim Ross Law analysis

A Jim Ross Law analysis of City of Arlington Safe Streets data, 2018–2024 (43,368 crashes) found Cooper Street at I-20 had the most crashes of any intersection. Cooper Street appears in four of the top eight. The firm notes this is not a City-published ranking.

Same source, by corridor: Cooper St 5,693 crashes and 27 deaths; SH 360 5,508 and 22; I-20 5,166 and 44 (the deadliest); I-30 3,107 and 16. The City’s Safe Streets Arlington 2025 Annual Report lists traffic deaths of 27, 26, 28, 33, 53, 26 and 43 for 2018 through 2024.

Crash counts include only police-reported crashes with an injury or at least $1,000 in damage. They aren't adjusted for how much traffic each road carries.

Emergency rooms near Arlington

Arlington’s main hospital ERs are Medical City Arlington and Texas Health Arlington Memorial; for the most serious injuries, paramedics may take you to JPS in Fort Worth, Tarrant County’s only Level I trauma center. Call 911 in an emergency and let paramedics choose the hospital. Trauma levels come from the Texas DSHS trauma facility list.

How to get an Arlington crash report

Crashes inside Arlington are handled by the Arlington Police Department. Reports are sold through TxDOT's Crash Report Online Purchase System (CRIS) for $6, or $8 for a certified copy, and officers have 10 days to file them. See the crash report guide.

Why distraction makes these roads worse

Busy roads mix turning, merging and stopping traffic, and a few seconds of distraction is enough for a crash.

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How this analysis was done, and its limits

Original analysis of TxDOT CRIS data, 2021–2025, Arlington and the area within 15 miles of the city limits. We used TxDOT CRIS crash-level records for 2021–2025 from the counties in and around Arlington, removed duplicate crash IDs, and grouped crashes by location: Arlington and the area within 15 miles of its city limits, roads in Arlington or within 5 miles of its city limits, and crashes coded inside Arlington city limits. An injury crash is one with a fatal, serious, minor or possible injury (CRIS severity K, A, B or C). Deaths and serious injuries are the totals of the CRIS count fields. Road names were cleaned up so highway codes read as plain names (for example, IH0820 becomes I-820). Intersections count only crashes where police recorded a cross street.

• CRIS includes only police-reported crashes with an injury or at least $1,000 in damage.
• Counts aren't adjusted for traffic volume, so busy highways naturally rank high.
• 2025 data may still be incomplete.
• Neighboring cities' areas overlap, so the same crash can count for more than one city.
• Freeway "intersections" are whole interchanges, including frontage roads.

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Last reviewed October 31, 2026. Medical review: pending. Sources are linked in each section and collected on our research library.