2016 crashes in Christchurch
2,251 crashes police-reported, 749 hurt somebody, 8 people were killed and 159 people were seriously hurt. Down 7% on 2015 for injury crashes.
By severity
Severity is the worst injury in the crash; the bars count crashes, the tiles count people. The 1,502 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: State Highway 76 & Springs Road, 19 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
90% urban. 19% on a state highway. 2,251 named a corner or a second road. 102 fell on a holiday, Christmas / New Year 45, Easter 24, Labour Weekend 17, Queen's Birthday 16. The street lights were on for 616, off for 182 and absent for 85.
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 46, frost on 41.
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: 1,892 on a two-way road, 348 on a one-way street, 11 on off the road. 118 were on a hill road. 16 left the sealed road. The uncommon spots: 24 on a bridge, 6 a rail crossing, 6 a motorway ramp. Roadworks marked 6, a temporary speed limit 43, an advisory speed 42.
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, 8
Every fatal crash in the record in 2016, the roads it named:
- Z Carpark at Shuttle Drive
- Pound Road at Ryans Road
- State Highway 74 at Pages Road
- Main North Road at Waimakariri Riv Br S Abt, 2 people
- Accessway at Annex Road
- Fendalton Road at Rail Xing
- Dyers Pass Road at Summit 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/2016.md.
Questions, answered briefly
2,251 police-reported crashes, 749 hurt somebody, 8 people killed and 159 people were seriously hurt, 762 minor injuries. The police crash record counts crashes where someone was hurt or a report was filed, most minor bumps never reach it.
State Highway 76 and Springs Road, 19 crashes that year.
Christchurch Central, 227 crashes, read from each crash’s coordinates against the suburb outlines.
19% were on a state highway. 102 fell on a holiday (Christmas / New Year 45, Easter 24, Labour Weekend 17, Queen's Birthday 16).