2009 crashes in Christchurch
2,581 crashes police-reported, 917 hurt somebody, 13 people were killed and 184 people were seriously hurt. Down 12% on 2008 for injury crashes.
By severity
Severity is the worst injury in the crash; the bars count crashes, the tiles count people. The 1,664 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, 21 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. 15% on a state highway. 2,581 named a corner or a second road. 118 fell on a holiday, Christmas / New Year 43, Easter 28, Queen's Birthday 24, Labour Weekend 23. The street lights were on for 759, off for 69 and absent for 71.
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 26, strong wind on 16.
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: 2,446 on a two-way road, 129 on a one-way street, 6 on off the road. 124 were on a hill road. 13 left the sealed road. The uncommon spots: 31 on a bridge, 6 a motorway ramp, 5 a rail crossing. Roadworks marked 2, a temporary speed limit 11, an advisory speed 19.
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 2009, the roads it named:
- State Highway 76 at Lincoln Road Obr
- Cashmere Road at Sutherlands Road
- Estuary Road at Cradock Street, 3 people
- Main Road at Cave Terrace
- Chedworth Avenue at Dymock Place
- State Highway 1S at Chaneys Off Ramp
- State Highway 75 at Summit Road
- Awatea Road at Carrs Road
- Buchanans Road at State Highway 73
- Gloucester Street at Tancred Street
- State Highway 1S at Bentley 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/2009.md.
Questions, answered briefly
2,581 police-reported crashes, 917 hurt somebody, 13 people killed and 184 people were seriously hurt, 947 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, 21 crashes that year.
Christchurch Central, 393 crashes, read from each crash’s coordinates against the suburb outlines.
15% were on a state highway. 118 fell on a holiday (Christmas / New Year 43, Easter 28, Queen's Birthday 24, Labour Weekend 23).