2025 crashes in Christchurch
1,866 crashes police-reported, 689 hurt somebody, 5 people were killed and 121 people were seriously hurt. Up 6% on 2024 for injury crashes.
By severity
Severity is the worst injury in the crash; the bars count crashes, the tiles count people. The 1,177 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, 15 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. 1,853 named a corner or a second road. 103 fell on a holiday, Christmas / New Year 47, Queen's Birthday 22, Easter 19, Labour Weekend 15. The street lights were on for 561, off for 995 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 33, strong wind on 22.
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: 1,444 on a two-way road, 408 on a one-way street, 13 on off the road. 91 were on a hill road. 10 left the sealed road. The uncommon spots: 25 a motorway ramp, 13 an overpass, 13 on a bridge, 10 a rail crossing, 9 an underpass. Roadworks marked 5, a temporary speed limit 30, an advisory speed 30.
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, 5
Every fatal crash in the record in 2025, the roads it named:
- Buchanans Road at Hei Hei Road
- Christchurch Akaroa Road at Red Johns Crescent, 2 people
- Halswell Road at Parklea Avenue
- Halswell Road at Augustine Drive
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/2025.md.
Questions, answered briefly
1,866 police-reported crashes, 689 hurt somebody, 5 people killed and 121 people were seriously hurt, 698 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, 15 crashes that year.
Christchurch Central, 158 crashes, read from each crash’s coordinates against the suburb outlines.
17% were on a state highway. 103 fell on a holiday (Christmas / New Year 47, Queen's Birthday 22, Easter 19, Labour Weekend 15).