# Amyes Road & Shands Road, Christchurch

25 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2009, 7 hurt somebody.

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

- minor, 7
- damage only, 18

## Year by year

- [2009](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2009), 2, 1 injury
- [2010](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2010), 3, 1 injury
- [2011](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2011), 3
- [2012](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2012), 1, 1 injury
- [2013](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2013), 2, 1 injury
- [2014](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2014), 2, 1 injury
- [2018](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2018), 1
- [2022](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2022), 1
- [2023](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2023), 3
- [2024](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2024), 1
- [2025](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2025), 4
- [2026](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2026), 2, 2 injury

_The worst year was 2025, with 4 recorded at the pairing._

## The suburb its crashes fall in

- [Hornby](https://www.chch.live/hornby), 25

_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=-43.545095&lon=172.524978&label=Amyes%20Road%20at%20Shands%20Road)
- [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.545095,172.524978,17)

## Who was involved

- trucks, 7
- people on bicycles, 3
- people walking, 3
- buses, 1

## What they hit

- a parked vehicle, 2
- a guard rail, 1
- a traffic island, 1
- a post or pole, 1
- a phone box or power cabinet, 1
- a fence, 1
- another object, 1

## The weather it happened in

- fine, 24
- light rain, 1

## How the crossing was controlled

- no marked control, 11
- traffic signals, 8
- not recorded, 6

## The vehicles on the day

- cars & station wagons, 20
- vans & utes, 4
- unrecorded vehicles, 1
- SUVs, 1

## Other pairings on these roads

- [State Highway 76 & Shands Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/sh-76-and-shands-road), 35
- [Goulding Avenue & Shands Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/goulding-avenue-and-shands-road), 34
- [Main South Road & Shands Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/main-south-road-and-shands-road), 30
- [State Highway 1S & Shands Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/sh-1s-and-shands-road), 27
- [Amyes Road & Springs Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/amyes-road-and-springs-road), 26
- [Halswell Junction Road & Shands Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/halswell-junction-road-and-shands-road), 22


## Questions, answered briefly

**How many crashes have there been at Amyes Road and Shands Road?**

25 police-reported crashes since 2009, 7 hurt somebody.

**What was the worst year at Amyes Road and Shands Road?**

2025, with 4 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash.

**Where is Amyes Road and Shands Road?**

In Hornby, 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.

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HTML: https://www.chch.live/crashes/amyes-road-and-shands-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
