2015 crashes in Christchurch
2,003 crashes police-reported, 809 hurt somebody, 18 people were killed and 167 people were seriously hurt. Down 3% on 2014 for injury crashes.
By severity
Severity is the worst injury in the crash; the bars count crashes, the tiles count people. The 1,194 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, 11 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. 20% on a state highway. 2,003 named a corner or a second road. 79 fell on a holiday, Christmas / New Year 34, Easter 19, Queen's Birthday 16, Labour Weekend 10. The street lights were on for 508, off for 437 and absent for 78.
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 35, strong wind on 15.
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: 1,849 on a two-way road, 133 on a one-way street, 12 on off the road. 113 were on a hill road. 9 left the sealed road. The uncommon spots: 21 on a bridge, 10 a motorway ramp, 4 a rail crossing. Roadworks marked 3, a temporary speed limit 41, an advisory speed 13.
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, 18
Every fatal crash in the record in 2015, the roads it named:
- Kilmore Street at Colombo Street
- 075-0000/00.36 at Nicholls Road
- Memorial Avenue at Kendal Avenue
- Salisbury Street at Durham Street, 2 people
- Pound Road at Savills Road
- Mairehau Road at Marshland Road
- Gardiners Road at Sawyers Arms Road
- 01s-0327-I at Main North Road Off Ramp, 2 people
- Evans Pass Road at Ocean View Terrace
- Wairakei Road at Breens Road
- Skerten Avenue at Denise Crescent S
- 075-0024 at McQueens Crk Br
- 073-0005 at Kirk Road
- State Highway 73 at Pound Road
- Jones Road at Dawsons Road
- Breens Road at Lochmore 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/2015.md.
Questions, answered briefly
2,003 police-reported crashes, 809 hurt somebody, 18 people killed and 167 people were seriously hurt, 842 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, 11 crashes that year.
Christchurch Central, 191 crashes, read from each crash’s coordinates against the suburb outlines.
20% were on a state highway. 79 fell on a holiday (Christmas / New Year 34, Easter 19, Queen's Birthday 16, Labour Weekend 10).