# Brougham Street & Opawa Road, Christchurch

34 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2018, 10 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, 2
- minor, 8
- damage only, 24

## Year by year

- [2018](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2018), 1
- [2019](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2019), 3, 1 injury
- [2020](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2020), 5, 1 injury
- [2021](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2021), 4, 1 injury
- [2022](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2022), 6, 1 injury
- [2023](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2023), 4, 1 injury
- [2024](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2024), 3, 2 injury
- [2025](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2025), 5, 2 injury
- [2026](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2026), 3, 1 injury

_The worst year was 2022, with 6 recorded at the pairing._

## The suburb its crashes fall in

- [Waltham](https://www.chch.live/waltham), 33
- [Hillsborough](https://www.chch.live/hillsborough), 1

_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=-43.548677&lon=172.655846&label=Brougham%20Street%20at%20Opawa%20Road)
- [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.548677,172.655846,17)

## Who was involved

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

## What they hit

- a traffic sign, 5
- a traffic island, 3
- a parked vehicle, 2
- a post or pole, 2
- a fence, 2
- a tree, 1

## The weather it happened in

- fine, 29
- light rain, 3
- heavy rain, 1

_A second condition rode some of them, frost on 1._

## How the crossing was controlled

- traffic signals, 14
- a give way, 12
- no marked control, 5
- not recorded, 2
- a stop sign, 1

## The vehicles on the day

- cars & station wagons, 28
- SUVs, 11
- vans & utes, 6
- taxis, 1

## Other pairings on these roads

- [Brougham Street & Colombo Street](https://www.chch.live/crashes/brougham-street-and-colombo-street), 53
- [Opawa Road & State Highway 76](https://www.chch.live/crashes/opawa-road-and-sh-76), 38
- [Brougham Street & Selwyn Street](https://www.chch.live/crashes/brougham-street-and-selwyn-street), 34
- [Brougham Street & Waltham Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/brougham-street-and-waltham-road), 33
- [Ensors Road & Opawa Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/ensors-road-and-opawa-road), 29
- [Brougham Street & Ensors Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/brougham-street-and-ensors-road), 25


## Questions, answered briefly

**How many crashes have there been at Brougham Street and Opawa Road?**

34 police-reported crashes since 2018, 10 hurt somebody and 3 people were seriously hurt.

**What was the worst year at Brougham Street and Opawa Road?**

2022, with 6 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash.

**Where is Brougham Street and Opawa Road?**

In Waltham, 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/brougham-street-and-opawa-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
