2017 crashes in Christchurch
2,224 crashes police-reported, 708 hurt somebody, 17 people were killed and 162 people were seriously hurt. Down 5% on 2016 for injury crashes.
By severity
Severity is the worst injury in the crash; the bars count crashes, the tiles count people. The 1,516 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, 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
90% urban. 19% on a state highway. 2,224 named a corner or a second road. 122 fell on a holiday, Christmas / New Year 59, Queen's Birthday 23, Easter 22, Labour Weekend 18. The street lights were on for 632, off for 164 and absent for 72.
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 61, frost on 40.
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: 1,848 on a two-way road, 361 on a one-way street, 13 on off the road. 113 were on a hill road. 9 left the sealed road. The uncommon spots: 26 on a bridge, 18 a motorway ramp, 3 a rail crossing. Roadworks marked 3, a temporary speed limit 46, an advisory speed 38.
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, 17
Every fatal crash in the record in 2017, the roads it named:
- Huxley Street at Colombo Street
- Cashmere Road at Hoon Hay Valley Road
- Cranford Street at Fraser Street
- State Highway 1S at Dickeys Road
- Kellys Road at Greenfield Place
- Innes Road at Cranford Street
- Worcester Street at Tancred Street
- Forfar Street at Warrington Street
- Parklands Drive at Conifer Place
- State Highway 76 at Selwyn Street
- Z Cpk Westlake Drive at Hemingford Place
- Radley Street at Ashmole Street
- Roydvale Avenue at Memorial Avenue
- Onuku Road at Stanley Place
- Bealey Avenue at Bishop Street
- Main Road at Shag Rock
- State Highway 74 at Stillwater Avenue
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/2017.md.
Questions, answered briefly
2,224 police-reported crashes, 708 hurt somebody, 17 people killed and 162 people were seriously hurt, 697 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, 10 crashes that year.
Christchurch Central, 196 crashes, read from each crash’s coordinates against the suburb outlines.
19% were on a state highway. 122 fell on a holiday (Christmas / New Year 59, Queen's Birthday 23, Easter 22, Labour Weekend 18).