2007 crashes in Christchurch
3,089 crashes police-reported, 1,069 hurt somebody, 13 people were killed and 220 people were seriously hurt. The worst year for injury crashes on the record · up 14% on 2006 for injury crashes.
By severity
Severity is the worst injury in the crash; the bars count crashes, the tiles count people. The 2,020 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, 16 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
92% urban. 14% on a state highway. 3,089 named a corner or a second road. 154 fell on a holiday, Easter 48, Christmas / New Year 47, Labour Weekend 31, Queen's Birthday 28. The street lights were on for 916, off for 86 and absent for 70.
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 17, frost on 17.
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: 2,877 on a two-way road, 157 on a one-way street, 55 on off the road. 126 were on a hill road. 11 left the sealed road. The uncommon spots: 30 on a bridge, 3 a rail crossing. Roadworks marked 0, a temporary speed limit 9, an advisory speed 27.
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, 13
Every fatal crash in the record in 2007, the roads it named:
- State Highway 73 at Cutts Road
- Lower Styx Road at Earlham Street
- Barbadoes Street at Chester Street East
- Linwood Avenue at Tilford Street
- Gebbies Pass Road at Governors Bay Teddington
- State Highway 76 at Gasson Street, 2 people
- Hills Road at Dudley Street
- State Highway 74 Main North at Northcote Road
- Cranford Street at Main North Road
- Z Cpk Airport at Dury Road
- State Highway 74 at Lowry Avenue
- Buchanans Road at Gilberthorpes Road
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/2007.md.
Questions, answered briefly
3,089 police-reported crashes, 1,069 hurt somebody, 13 people killed and 220 people were seriously hurt, 1,153 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, 16 crashes that year.
Christchurch Central, 459 crashes, read from each crash’s coordinates against the suburb outlines.
14% were on a state highway. 154 fell on a holiday (Easter 48, Christmas / New Year 47, Labour Weekend 31, Queen's Birthday 28).