# Curletts Road & Main South Road, Christchurch

56 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2008, 17 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, 14
- damage only, 39

## Year by year

- [2008](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2008), 1
- [2009](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2009), 1
- [2010](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2010), 1
- [2013](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2013), 2
- [2014](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2014), 1
- [2016](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2016), 2, 1 injury
- [2018](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2018), 2
- [2019](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2019), 7, 2 injury
- [2020](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2020), 7, 2 injury
- [2021](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2021), 6, 2 injury
- [2022](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2022), 8, 2 injury
- [2023](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2023), 8, 2 injury
- [2024](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2024), 1, 1 injury
- [2025](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2025), 5, 4 injury
- [2026](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2026), 4, 1 injury

_The worst year was 2022, with 8 recorded at the pairing._

## The suburb its crashes fall in

- [Sockburn](https://www.chch.live/sockburn), 56

_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=-43.532302&lon=172.567364&label=Curletts%20Road%20at%20Main%20South%20Road)
- [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.532302,172.567364,17)

## Who was involved

- motorcycles & mopeds, 3
- people on bicycles, 2
- trucks, 1
- buses, 1

## What they hit

- a traffic sign, 2
- a fence, 2
- a parked vehicle, 1

## The weather it happened in

- fine, 49
- light rain, 6

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

## How the crossing was controlled

- traffic signals, 45
- not recorded, 5
- a give way, 3
- no marked control, 3

## The vehicles on the day

- cars & station wagons, 55
- SUVs, 7
- vans & utes, 5
- unrecorded vehicles, 1

## Other pairings on these roads

- [Blenheim Road & Main South Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/blenheim-road-and-main-south-road), 157
- [Main South Road & State Highway 73](https://www.chch.live/crashes/main-south-road-and-sh-73), 97
- [Blenheim Road & Curletts Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/blenheim-road-and-curletts-road), 76
- [Main South Road & Riccarton Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/main-south-road-and-riccarton-road), 75
- [Curletts Road & Curletts Road Off Ramp](https://www.chch.live/crashes/curletts-road-and-curletts-road-off-ramp), 62
- [Epsom Road & Main South Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/epsom-road-and-main-south-road), 58


## Questions, answered briefly

**How many crashes have there been at Curletts Road and Main South Road?**

56 police-reported crashes since 2008, 17 hurt somebody and 3 people were seriously hurt.

**What was the worst year at Curletts Road and Main South Road?**

2022, with 8 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash.

**Where is Curletts Road and Main South Road?**

In Sockburn, 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/curletts-road-and-main-south-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
