2019 crashes in Christchurch
1,858 crashes police-reported, 679 hurt somebody, 14 people were killed and 148 people were seriously hurt. Down 9% on 2018 for injury crashes.
By severity
Severity is the worst injury in the crash; the bars count crashes, the tiles count people. The 1,179 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: Blenheim Road & Clarence Street, 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
91% urban. 15% on a state highway. 1,841 named a corner or a second road. 91 fell on a holiday, Christmas / New Year 39, Queen's Birthday 19, Labour Weekend 18, Easter 15. The street lights were on for 623, off for 1,039 and absent for 142.
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 24, strong wind on 20.
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: 1,618 on a two-way road, 228 on a one-way street, 9 on off the road. 93 were on a hill road. 16 left the sealed road. The uncommon spots: 20 on a bridge, 15 a motorway ramp, 11 a rail crossing, 10 an overpass, 7 an underpass. Roadworks marked 4, a temporary speed limit 39, an advisory speed 36.
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, 14
Every fatal crash in the record in 2019, the roads it named:
- Blenheim Road at Wharenui Road, 3 people
- Russley Road at State Highway 73, 2 people
- Off Road Hotel Carpark
- Dyers Pass Road at Summit Road, 2 people
- Springs Road at 076-0011/04.97
- Summit Road at Harry Ell Walkway, 2 people
- Ferry Road at Phillipstown Courts
- Glandovey Road at Idris Road
- Barbadoes Street at Moorhouse 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/2019.md.
Questions, answered briefly
1,858 police-reported crashes, 679 hurt somebody, 14 people killed and 148 people were seriously hurt, 677 minor injuries. The police crash record counts crashes where someone was hurt or a report was filed, most minor bumps never reach it.
Blenheim Road and Clarence Street, 13 crashes that year.
Christchurch Central, 158 crashes, read from each crash’s coordinates against the suburb outlines.
15% were on a state highway. 91 fell on a holiday (Christmas / New Year 39, Queen's Birthday 19, Labour Weekend 18, Easter 15).