# Bower Avenue & Travis Road, Christchurch 48 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2006, 15 hurt somebody, 3 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, 3 - minor, 12 - damage only, 33 ## Year by year - [2006](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2006), 3 - [2007](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2007), 5, 1 injury - [2008](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2008), 5, 1 injury - [2009](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2009), 1, 1 injury - [2010](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2010), 3, 1 injury - [2011](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2011), 2, 2 injury - [2013](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2013), 4, 1 injury - [2014](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2014), 3, 1 injury - [2016](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2016), 2 - [2017](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2017), 3, 1 injury - [2018](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2018), 1 - [2019](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2019), 1 - [2020](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2020), 2 - [2021](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2021), 1 - [2022](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2022), 2 - [2023](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2023), 9, 5 injury - [2025](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2025), 1, 1 injury _The worst year was 2023, with 9 recorded at the pairing._ ## The suburb its crashes fall in - [New Brighton](https://www.chch.live/new-brighton), 44 - [North New Brighton](https://www.chch.live/north-new-brighton), 4 _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=-43.495123&lon=172.710605&label=Bower%20Avenue%20at%20Travis%20Road) - [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.495123,172.710605,17) ## Who was involved - people on bicycles, 8 - motorcycles & mopeds, 2 - trucks, 2 - buses, 2 - people walking, 1 ## What they hit - a parked vehicle, 4 - another object, 2 - a traffic island, 2 - a fence, 2 - a traffic sign, 2 - a phone box or power cabinet, 1 - a house or building, 1 - a post or pole, 1 ## The weather it happened in - fine, 44 - light rain, 2 - heavy rain, 1 _A second condition rode some of them, frost on 1._ ## How the crossing was controlled - a give way, 32 - no marked control, 12 - not recorded, 4 ## The vehicles on the day - cars & station wagons, 43 - vans & utes, 5 - SUVs, 5 - unrecorded vehicles, 1 ## Other pairings on these roads - [State Highway 74 & Travis Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/sh-74-and-travis-road), 26 - [Frosts Road & Travis Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/frosts-road-and-travis-road), 24 - [Bower Avenue & New Brighton Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/bower-avenue-and-new-brighton-road), 22 - [Burwood Road & Travis Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/burwood-road-and-travis-road), 21 - [Bower Avenue & Rookwood Avenue](https://www.chch.live/crashes/bower-avenue-and-rookwood-avenue), 19 - [Anzac Drive & Travis Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/anzac-drive-and-travis-road), 18 ## Questions, answered briefly **How many crashes have there been at Bower Avenue and Travis Road?** 48 police-reported crashes since 2006, 15 hurt somebody and 3 people were seriously hurt. **What was the worst year at Bower Avenue and Travis Road?** 2023, with 9 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash. **Where is Bower Avenue and Travis Road?** In New Brighton, 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/bower-avenue-and-travis-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