2022 crashes in Christchurch
1,881 crashes police-reported, 684 hurt somebody, 12 people were killed and 132 people were seriously hurt. Up 9% on 2021 for injury crashes.
By severity
Severity is the worst injury in the crash; the bars count crashes, the tiles count people. The 1,197 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: Halswell Junction Road & 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
92% urban. 17% on a state highway. 1,868 named a corner or a second road. 113 fell on a holiday, Christmas / New Year 51, Easter 24, Labour Weekend 24, Queen's Birthday 14. The street lights were on for 612, off for 1,063 and absent for 150.
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 39, strong wind on 27.
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: 1,482 on a two-way road, 386 on a one-way street, 13 on off the road. 95 were on a hill road. 12 left the sealed road. The uncommon spots: 17 on a bridge, 17 a motorway ramp, 10 an overpass, 9 an underpass, 4 a speed hump. Roadworks marked 3, a temporary speed limit 14, an advisory speed 69.
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, 12
Every fatal crash in the record in 2022, the roads it named:
- Off Road-Bellbird Hearing
- Halswell Road at Aidanfield Drive
- Hay Street at Ruru Road
- Hereford Street at Fitzgerald Avenue
- Linwood Avenue at Cashel Street
- Gasson Street at Byron Street
- Caledonian Road at Canon Street
- Caulfield Avenue at Whincops Road
- Pound Road at Yaldhurst Road
- Halswell Junction Road at Edmonton Road
- Yaldhurst Road at Russley Road
- Martindales Road at Truscotts 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/2022.md.
Questions, answered briefly
1,881 police-reported crashes, 684 hurt somebody, 12 people killed and 132 people were seriously hurt, 673 minor injuries. The police crash record counts crashes where someone was hurt or a report was filed, most minor bumps never reach it.
Halswell Junction Road and Springs Road, 10 crashes that year.
Christchurch Central, 163 crashes, read from each crash’s coordinates against the suburb outlines.
17% were on a state highway. 113 fell on a holiday (Christmas / New Year 51, Easter 24, Labour Weekend 24, Queen's Birthday 14).