2023 crashes in Christchurch
2,047 crashes police-reported, 685 hurt somebody, 9 people were killed and 151 people were seriously hurt. No change from 2022 for injury crashes.
By severity
Severity is the worst injury in the crash; the bars count crashes, the tiles count people. The 1,362 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 & Curletts Road, 17 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
93% urban. 16% on a state highway. 2,033 named a corner or a second road. 99 fell on a holiday, Christmas / New Year 47, Easter 20, Queen's Birthday 19, Labour Weekend 13. The street lights were on for 644, off for 1,220 and absent for 152.
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 40, frost on 18.
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: 1,620 on a two-way road, 413 on a one-way street, 14 on off the road. 105 were on a hill road. 18 left the sealed road. The uncommon spots: 22 a motorway ramp, 20 on a bridge, 16 an overpass, 11 a speed hump, 5 an underpass. Roadworks marked 5, a temporary speed limit 28, an advisory speed 100.
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, 9
Every fatal crash in the record in 2023, the roads it named:
- McLeans Island Road at McArthurs Road
- Blenheim Road at Curletts Road
- Copenhagen Place at Marion Street
- Tunnel Road at Horotane Obr, 2 people
- Lake Terrace Road at Marshland Road
- Avonside Drive at Woodham Road
- Greywacke Road at Lakes Way
- Barbadoes Street at Edgeware 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/2023.md.
Questions, answered briefly
2,047 police-reported crashes, 685 hurt somebody, 9 people killed and 151 people were seriously hurt, 685 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 Curletts Road, 17 crashes that year.
Christchurch Central, 208 crashes, read from each crash’s coordinates against the suburb outlines.
16% were on a state highway. 99 fell on a holiday (Christmas / New Year 47, Easter 20, Queen's Birthday 19, Labour Weekend 13).