2006 crashes in Christchurch
2,923 crashes police-reported, 941 hurt somebody, 10 people were killed and 167 people were seriously hurt.
By severity
Severity is the worst injury in the crash; the bars count crashes, the tiles count people. The 1,982 damage-only reports sit under the trend, they rise and fall with how willing people are to fill in a form.
Where they happened
Read from each crash’s coordinates, the outline its point falls inside.
The roads it named most
Counting every crash that named the road, a link is the map filtered to it. The corner the year kept returning to: Marshland Road & State Highway 74, 26 crashes that year.
The corners it kept returning to
The two roads a crash named together, ranked, each opens its own pairing page.
Who was involved
Crashes in which that kind of road user appears, one crash can carry several.
The conditions
91% urban. 16% on a state highway. 2,923 named a corner or a second road. 177 fell on a holiday, Christmas / New Year 78, Queen's Birthday 39, Labour Weekend 31, Easter 29. The street lights were on for 851, off for 80 and absent for 66.
Speed zones
Posted speed limit where the crash was recorded, the same bars the whole-record page draws. Faster zones kill more often per crash.
What they hit
What the reports say was struck, a crash can hit several things and most hit nothing at all.
The weather it happened in
A second condition rode some of them, strong wind on 25, frost on 21.
How the crossing was controlled
The control CAS recorded at the spot, a crash pinned to a corner still counts the crossing’s control, not which rule was broken.
The road itself
The way the road ran: 2,706 on a two-way road, 161 on a one-way street, 56 on off the road. 97 were on a hill road. 16 left the sealed road. The uncommon spots: 25 on a bridge, 7 a rail crossing, 4 a motorway ramp. Roadworks marked 4, a temporary speed limit 7, an advisory speed 34.
The vehicles on the day
A crash can carry several, the bikes, motorbikes and trucks are counted with the road users above.
The way they were travelling
The direction CAS recorded for the unit that started the crash: where the report gives one.
The people who died, 10
Every fatal crash in the record in 2006, the roads it named:
- Opawa Road at Vincent Place East
- Summit Road at Dyers Pass Road
- State Highway 75 at Gebbies Pass Road
- Ferry Road at Gould Crescent W
- Cranford Street at Fraser Street
- Blenheim Road at Curletts Road
- Z Cpk New World Warwick at Stanmore Road
- State Highway 1S Russley at Yaldhurst Road
- Simeon Street at Meadowville Avenue
- Manchester Street at Cashel Street
Other years
The record behind this
Every figure comes from NZTA’s Crash Analysis System, the national record of crashes a police officer wrote up, filtered to Christchurch City. Damage-only and minor crashes are underreported everywhere; the killed and seriously-hurt numbers are the ones that hold.
The map, the repeat corners and the whole-record charts are at /crashes. This page as markdown: /crashes/2006.md.
Questions, answered briefly
2,923 police-reported crashes, 941 hurt somebody, 10 people killed and 167 people were seriously hurt, 991 minor injuries. The police crash record counts crashes where someone was hurt or a report was filed, most minor bumps never reach it.
Marshland Road and State Highway 74, 26 crashes that year.
Christchurch Central, 463 crashes, read from each crash’s coordinates against the suburb outlines.
16% were on a state highway. 177 fell on a holiday (Christmas / New Year 78, Queen's Birthday 39, Labour Weekend 31, Easter 29).