2018 crashes in Christchurch
2,128 crashes police-reported, 748 hurt somebody, 23 people were killed and 141 people were seriously hurt. The deadliest year on the record · up 6% on 2017 for injury crashes.
By severity
Severity is the worst injury in the crash; the bars count crashes, the tiles count people. The 1,380 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: Dyers Pass Road & Victoria Park Road, 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
91% urban. 17% on a state highway. 2,125 named a corner or a second road. 100 fell on a holiday, Christmas / New Year 39, Easter 27, Labour Weekend 18, Queen's Birthday 16. The street lights were on for 665, off for 227 and absent for 86.
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 44, frost on 23.
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: 1,834 on a two-way road, 282 on a one-way street, 11 on off the road. 144 were on a hill road. 6 left the sealed road. The uncommon spots: 29 on a bridge, 13 a motorway ramp, 8 a rail crossing, 5 an underpass. Roadworks marked 0, a temporary speed limit 33, an advisory speed 49.
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, 23
Every fatal crash in the record in 2018, the roads it named:
- Logistics Drive at Sawyers Arms Road
- Byron Street at Colombo Street
- Breezes Road at Cuthberts Road, 2 people
- Dyers Pass Road at Main Road
- Queen Elizabeth II Drive at Marshland Road
- Dyers Pass Road at Summit Road
- Gayhurst Road at Locksley Avenue
- Sparks Road at Milns Road
- State Highway 75 at Pigeon Bay Road
- Purau Port Levy Road at Western Valley Road
- Hasketts Road at Barters Road
- State Highway 74 at Rail Obr
- Gloucester Street at Fitzgerald Avenue
- State Highway 76 at Aidenfield Obr
- State Highway 1S at Bentley Street
- Main South Road at Foremans Road
- Gloucester Street at Fitzgerald Avenue
- Yaldhurst Road at Curletts Road
- Aldwins Road at Edmond Street
- Tunnel Road at Ferry Road
- Bossu Road at Kinloch Road
- 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/2018.md.
Questions, answered briefly
2,128 police-reported crashes, 748 hurt somebody, 23 people killed and 141 people were seriously hurt, 740 minor injuries. The police crash record counts crashes where someone was hurt or a report was filed, most minor bumps never reach it.
Dyers Pass Road and Victoria Park Road, 11 crashes that year.
Christchurch Central, 208 crashes, read from each crash’s coordinates against the suburb outlines.
17% were on a state highway. 100 fell on a holiday (Christmas / New Year 39, Easter 27, Labour Weekend 18, Queen's Birthday 16).