# Bealey Avenue & Colombo Street, Christchurch

30 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2019, 15 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, 15
- damage only, 15

## Year by year

- [2019](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2019), 5, 3 injury
- [2020](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2020), 4, 1 injury
- [2021](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2021), 3, 2 injury
- [2022](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2022), 3
- [2023](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2023), 6, 4 injury
- [2024](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2024), 7, 4 injury
- [2026](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2026), 2, 1 injury

_The worst year was 2024, with 7 recorded at the pairing._

## The suburb its crashes fall in

- [Christchurch Central](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city), 30

_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=-43.520893&lon=172.636552&label=Bealey%20Avenue%20at%20Colombo%20Street)
- [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.520893,172.636552,17)

## Who was involved

- people on bicycles, 5
- people walking, 2
- buses, 2
- trucks, 1

## What they hit

- a parked vehicle, 4
- a traffic island, 1
- a tree, 1
- a traffic sign, 1

## The weather it happened in

- fine, 26
- light rain, 4

## How the crossing was controlled

- traffic signals, 22
- no marked control, 8

## The vehicles on the day

- cars & station wagons, 27
- vans & utes, 4
- taxis, 2
- SUVs, 1

## Other pairings on these roads

- [Bealey Avenue & Manchester Street](https://www.chch.live/crashes/bealey-avenue-and-manchester-street), 111
- [Bealey Avenue & Madras Street](https://www.chch.live/crashes/bealey-avenue-and-madras-street), 72
- [Barbadoes Street & Bealey Avenue](https://www.chch.live/crashes/barbadoes-street-and-bealey-avenue), 66
- [Bealey Avenue & Papanui Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/bealey-avenue-and-papanui-road), 63
- [Brougham Street & Colombo Street](https://www.chch.live/crashes/brougham-street-and-colombo-street), 53
- [Bealey Avenue & Sherborne Street](https://www.chch.live/crashes/bealey-avenue-and-sherborne-street), 52


## Questions, answered briefly

**How many crashes have there been at Bealey Avenue and Colombo Street?**

30 police-reported crashes since 2019, 15 hurt somebody.

**What was the worst year at Bealey Avenue and Colombo Street?**

2024, with 7 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash.

**Where is Bealey Avenue and Colombo Street?**

In Christchurch Central, 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/bealey-avenue-and-colombo-street
All pairings: https://www.chch.live/crashes/intersections
Whole record: https://www.chch.live/crashes
Source: NZTA Crash Analysis System (CAS), police-reported crashes