# Colombo Street & Hereford Street, Christchurch

41 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2006, 12 hurt somebody, 2 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, 10
- damage only, 29

## Year by year

- [2006](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2006), 11, 2 injury
- [2007](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2007), 6, 1 injury
- [2008](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2008), 6, 2 injury
- [2009](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2009), 7, 4 injury
- [2010](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2010), 6, 3 injury
- [2016](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2016), 1
- [2017](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2017), 1
- [2018](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2018), 3

_The worst year was 2006, with 11 recorded at the pairing._

## The suburb its crashes fall in

- [Christchurch Central](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city), 41

_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=-43.532103&lon=172.636626&label=Colombo%20Street%20at%20Hereford%20Street)
- [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.532103,172.636626,17)

## Who was involved

- people walking, 7
- buses, 5
- motorcycles & mopeds, 3
- trucks, 3
- people on bicycles, 2

## What they hit

- a parked vehicle, 6
- a post or pole, 1
- a bank or cliff face, 1
- a guard rail, 1
- a fence, 1
- a house or building, 1

## The weather it happened in

- fine, 31
- light rain, 7
- mist or fog, 2
- heavy rain, 1

## How the crossing was controlled

- not recorded, 25
- traffic signals, 15
- no marked control, 1

## The vehicles on the day

- cars & station wagons, 32
- vans & utes, 6
- SUVs, 5
- taxis, 2

## Other pairings on these roads

- [Colombo Street & State Highway 76](https://www.chch.live/crashes/colombo-street-and-sh-76), 87
- [Fitzgerald Avenue & Hereford Street](https://www.chch.live/crashes/fitzgerald-avenue-and-hereford-street), 68
- [Bealey Avenue & Colombo Street](https://www.chch.live/crashes/bealey-avenue-and-colombo-street), 61
- [Hereford Street & Stanmore Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/hereford-street-and-stanmore-road), 47
- [Hereford Street & Linwood Avenue](https://www.chch.live/crashes/hereford-street-and-linwood-avenue), 46
- [Colombo Street & Tuam Street](https://www.chch.live/crashes/colombo-street-and-tuam-street), 43


## Questions, answered briefly

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

41 police-reported crashes since 2006, 12 hurt somebody and 2 people were seriously hurt.

**What was the worst year at Colombo Street and Hereford Street?**

2006, with 11 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash.

**Where is Colombo Street and Hereford 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/colombo-street-and-hereford-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