2013 crashes in Christchurch
2,054 crashes police-reported, 833 hurt somebody, 11 people were killed and 182 people were seriously hurt. Down 2% on 2012 for injury crashes.
By severity
Severity is the worst injury in the crash; the bars count crashes, the tiles count people. The 1,221 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: Bealey Avenue & Manchester Street, 10 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
89% urban. 18% on a state highway. 2,054 named a corner or a second road. 78 fell on a holiday, Christmas / New Year 28, Easter 20, Labour Weekend 15, Queen's Birthday 15. The street lights were on for 545, off for 175 and absent for 47.
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 17, strong wind on 9.
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: 1,895 on a two-way road, 142 on a one-way street, 17 on off the road. 75 were on a hill road. 12 left the sealed road. The uncommon spots: 17 on a bridge, 10 a motorway ramp, 5 a rail crossing. Roadworks marked 2, a temporary speed limit 79, an advisory speed 16.
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, 11
Every fatal crash in the record in 2013, the roads it named:
- Creyke Road at Engineering Road
- Spencerville Road at Turners Road
- State Highway 1S at Connemara Drive
- State Highway 76 Halswell Junction at Shands Road
- Bowhill Road at Grantley Street
- Hills Road at Acheson Avenue
- Breezes Road at Wainoni Road
- Pages Road at Breezes Road
- Main North Road at Marshland Road
- Pound Road at Yaldhurst Road
- State Highway 74 at Breezes 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/2013.md.
Questions, answered briefly
2,054 police-reported crashes, 833 hurt somebody, 11 people killed and 182 people were seriously hurt, 838 minor injuries. The police crash record counts crashes where someone was hurt or a report was filed, most minor bumps never reach it.
Bealey Avenue and Manchester Street, 10 crashes that year.
Christchurch Central, 207 crashes, read from each crash’s coordinates against the suburb outlines.
18% were on a state highway. 78 fell on a holiday (Christmas / New Year 28, Easter 20, Labour Weekend 15, Queen's Birthday 15).