# Awatea Road & Springs Road, Christchurch

34 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2006, 9 hurt somebody, 5 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, 5
- minor, 4
- damage only, 25

## Year by year

- [2006](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2006), 1, 1 injury
- [2007](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2007), 2
- [2008](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2008), 1, 1 injury
- [2009](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2009), 3
- [2010](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2010), 2
- [2011](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2011), 2
- [2012](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2012), 4, 2 injury
- [2013](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2013), 2
- [2014](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2014), 1, 1 injury
- [2015](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2015), 3
- [2017](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2017), 1
- [2018](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2018), 1, 1 injury
- [2019](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2019), 1, 1 injury
- [2021](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2021), 1
- [2022](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2022), 1
- [2023](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2023), 2, 2 injury
- [2024](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2024), 1
- [2025](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2025), 3
- [2026](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2026), 2

_The worst year was 2012, with 4 recorded at the pairing._

## The suburb its crashes fall in

- [Hornby](https://www.chch.live/hornby), 34

_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=-43.551731&lon=172.535169&label=Awatea%20Road%20at%20Springs%20Road)
- [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.551731,172.535169,17)

## Who was involved

- trucks, 6
- motorcycles & mopeds, 2
- people on bicycles, 1
- people walking, 1
- buses, 1

## What they hit

- a post or pole, 4
- a fence, 2
- a kerb, 2
- a tree, 1
- a parked vehicle, 1
- another object, 1

## The weather it happened in

- fine, 25
- light rain, 7
- heavy rain, 2

_A second condition rode some of them, frost on 2._

## How the crossing was controlled

- a give way, 25
- not recorded, 7
- no marked control, 2

## The vehicles on the day

- cars & station wagons, 26
- SUVs, 13
- vans & utes, 7

## Other pairings on these roads

- [Halswell Junction Road & Springs Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/halswell-junction-road-and-springs-road), 89
- [State Highway 76 & Springs Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/sh-76-and-springs-road), 67
- [Main South Road & Springs Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/main-south-road-and-springs-road), 58
- [Marshs Road & Springs Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/marshs-road-and-springs-road), 46
- [Sioux Avenue & Springs Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/sioux-avenue-and-springs-road), 30
- [Amyes Road & Springs Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/amyes-road-and-springs-road), 26


## Questions, answered briefly

**How many crashes have there been at Awatea Road and Springs Road?**

34 police-reported crashes since 2006, 9 hurt somebody and 5 people were seriously hurt.

**What was the worst year at Awatea Road and Springs Road?**

2012, with 4 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash.

**Where is Awatea Road and Springs 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/awatea-road-and-springs-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
