# Acheron Drive & Blenheim Road, Christchurch 43 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2011, 15 hurt somebody, 2 seriously hurt. From NZTA’s Crash Analysis System. CAS locates a crash by the nearest pair of roads, these counts are the crashes the record pins to this pairing, which includes crashes a few metres either side of the stop line and can share a crash with a neighbouring pairing. Damage-only and minor crashes are underreported everywhere; the killed and seriously-hurt numbers are the ones that hold. ## Severity - serious, 2 - minor, 13 - damage only, 28 ## Year by year - [2011](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2011), 2 - [2012](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2012), 1 - [2016](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2016), 3, 2 injury - [2017](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2017), 3 - [2018](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2018), 5, 2 injury - [2019](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2019), 2 - [2020](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2020), 3, 2 injury - [2021](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2021), 3, 1 injury - [2022](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2022), 3, 2 injury - [2023](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2023), 6, 1 injury - [2024](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2024), 8, 3 injury - [2025](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2025), 2, 1 injury - [2026](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2026), 2, 1 injury _The worst year was 2024, with 8 recorded at the pairing._ ## The suburb its crashes fall in - [Upper Riccarton](https://www.chch.live/upper-riccarton), 30 - [Riccarton](https://www.chch.live/riccarton), 13 _Suburb is read from each crash’s coordinates._ ## Where it stands The pin is the crashes’ midpoint as the Crash Analysis System (CAS) records them, the file pins each crash to the nearest pair of roads, so this is the record’s centre, not a surveyed corner. - [What stands at the pin](https://www.chch.live/address?lat=-43.538335&lon=172.586934&label=Acheron%20Drive%20at%20Blenheim%20Road) - [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.538335,172.586934,17) ## Who was involved - people walking, 7 - people on bicycles, 5 - trucks, 5 - motorcycles & mopeds, 1 ## What they hit - a traffic island, 3 - a parked vehicle, 2 - a post or pole, 1 ## The weather it happened in - fine, 35 - light rain, 5 - heavy rain, 2 ## How the crossing was controlled - no marked control, 17 - traffic signals, 17 - not recorded, 6 - a give way, 3 ## The vehicles on the day - cars & station wagons, 36 - vans & utes, 9 - SUVs, 9 ## Other pairings on these roads - [Blenheim Road & Main South Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/blenheim-road-and-main-south-road), 157 - [Blenheim Road & Matipo Street](https://www.chch.live/crashes/blenheim-road-and-matipo-street), 109 - [Blenheim Road & Curletts Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/blenheim-road-and-curletts-road), 76 - [Blenheim Road & State Highway 73](https://www.chch.live/crashes/blenheim-road-and-sh-73), 74 - [Blenheim Road & Wharenui Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/blenheim-road-and-wharenui-road), 65 - [Blenheim Road & Deans Avenue](https://www.chch.live/crashes/blenheim-road-and-deans-avenue), 56 ## Questions, answered briefly **How many crashes have there been at Acheron Drive and Blenheim Road?** 43 police-reported crashes since 2011, 15 hurt somebody and 2 people were seriously hurt. **What was the worst year at Acheron Drive and Blenheim Road?** 2024, with 8 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash. **Where is Acheron Drive and Blenheim Road?** In Upper Riccarton, the pairing groups the crashes whose records name both roads; the suburbs list shows where its crash coordinates actually fell. **Where does this crash record come from?** NZTA’s Crash Analysis System, filtered to Christchurch City, CAS pins a crash by its nearest pair of roads, so the count includes crashes a few metres either side of the stop line. Damage-only and minor crashes are underreported; the killed and seriously-hurt numbers are the ones that hold. --- HTML: https://www.chch.live/crashes/acheron-drive-and-blenheim-road All pairings: https://www.chch.live/crashes/intersections Whole record: https://www.chch.live/crashes Source: NZTA Crash Analysis System (CAS), police-reported crashes