2014 crashes in Christchurch
2,123 crashes police-reported, 835 hurt somebody, 10 people were killed and 194 people were seriously hurt. No change from 2013 for injury crashes.
By severity
Severity is the worst injury in the crash; the bars count crashes, the tiles count people. The 1,288 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: Main South Road & State Highway 73, 13 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. 19% on a state highway. 2,123 named a corner or a second road. 94 fell on a holiday, Christmas / New Year 33, Easter 21, Labour Weekend 21, Queen's Birthday 19. The street lights were on for 621, off for 419 and absent for 91.
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 19, frost 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: 2,001 on a two-way road, 112 on a one-way street, 9 on off the road. 97 were on a hill road. 13 left the sealed road. The uncommon spots: 18 on a bridge, 7 a motorway ramp, 2 a rail crossing. Roadworks marked 1, a temporary speed limit 28, an advisory speed 11.
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 2014, the roads it named:
- Harper Avenue at Park Terrace
- Tuam Street at Stanmore Road
- Marine Parade at Hawke Street
- Memorial Avenue at Kendal Avenue
- Waterloo Road at State Highway 1S
- State Highway 76 at James K Baxter Place, 2 people
- State Highway 1S at Harewood Road
- Gebbies Pass Road at Charteris Bay Road
- Lincoln Road at Hillmorton Hosp Access
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/2014.md.
Questions, answered briefly
2,123 police-reported crashes, 835 hurt somebody, 10 people killed and 194 people were seriously hurt, 819 minor injuries. The police crash record counts crashes where someone was hurt or a report was filed, most minor bumps never reach it.
Main South Road and State Highway 73, 13 crashes that year.
Christchurch Central, 200 crashes, read from each crash’s coordinates against the suburb outlines.
19% were on a state highway. 94 fell on a holiday (Christmas / New Year 33, Easter 21, Labour Weekend 21, Queen's Birthday 19).