2008 crashes in Christchurch
2,774 crashes police-reported, 1,041 hurt somebody, 16 people were killed and 219 people were seriously hurt. Down 3% on 2007 for injury crashes.
By severity
Severity is the worst injury in the crash; the bars count crashes, the tiles count people. The 1,733 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
91% urban. 15% on a state highway. 2,774 named a corner or a second road. 137 fell on a holiday, Christmas / New Year 42, Easter 38, Labour Weekend 30, Queen's Birthday 27. The street lights were on for 825, off for 71 and absent for 74.
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, frost on 22, strong wind on 12.
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: 2,614 on a two-way road, 147 on a one-way street, 13 on off the road. 127 were on a hill road. 3 left the sealed road. The uncommon spots: 26 on a bridge, 6 a rail crossing, 5 a motorway ramp. Roadworks marked 1, a temporary speed limit 6, an advisory speed 24.
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, 16
Every fatal crash in the record in 2008, the roads it named:
- State Highway 1S at Avonhead Road
- Marshland Road at Turners Road
- Milton Street at Simeon Street
- Main North Road at Link Road
- Wainoni Road at Bickerton Street
- Ferry Road at Gould Crescent W
- St Asaph Street at Duke Street
- Fendalton Road at Jacksons Road
- River Road at Banks Avenue
- Styx Mill Road at Gardiners Road
- McAlpine Street at Jipcho Road
- Middlepark Road at Doncaster Street
- Lower Styx Road at Marshland Road
- Main South Road at Garvins Road
- State Highway 75 at Summit Road
- Clarence Street at Peverel 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/2008.md.
Questions, answered briefly
2,774 police-reported crashes, 1,041 hurt somebody, 16 people killed and 219 people were seriously hurt, 1,075 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, 431 crashes, read from each crash’s coordinates against the suburb outlines.
15% were on a state highway. 137 fell on a holiday (Christmas / New Year 42, Easter 38, Labour Weekend 30, Queen's Birthday 27).