# Durham Street & Salisbury Street, Christchurch

28 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2006, 10 hurt somebody, 2 people killed, 1 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

- fatal, 1
- minor, 9
- damage only, 18

## Year by year

- [2006](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2006), 4, 1 injury
- [2007](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2007), 2, 1 injury
- [2008](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2008), 4, 1 injury
- [2009](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2009), 4
- [2010](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2010), 3, 1 injury
- [2012](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2012), 3, 2 injury
- [2013](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2013), 2, 2 injury
- [2014](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2014), 2
- [2015](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2015), 1, 1 injury, 2 killed
- [2016](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2016), 2
- [2017](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2017), 1, 1 injury

_The worst year was 2006, with 4 recorded at the pairing._

## The suburb its crashes fall in

- [Christchurch Central](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city), 28

_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=-43.524356&lon=172.633592&label=Durham%20Street%20at%20Salisbury%20Street)
- [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.524356,172.633592,17)

## Who was involved

- trucks, 2
- buses, 1

## What they hit

- a parked vehicle, 4
- a guard rail, 1
- a traffic sign, 1
- a tree, 1

## The weather it happened in

- fine, 22
- light rain, 3
- heavy rain, 1

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

## How the crossing was controlled

- traffic signals, 26
- not recorded, 2

## The vehicles on the day

- cars & station wagons, 28
- SUVs, 7
- vans & utes, 6
- taxis, 1

## The people who died, 2

- [2015](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2015), 2 people

## Other pairings on these roads

- [Durham Street & Moorhouse Avenue](https://www.chch.live/crashes/durham-street-and-moorhouse-avenue), 92
- [Manchester Street & Salisbury Street](https://www.chch.live/crashes/manchester-street-and-salisbury-street), 54
- [Durham Street & St Asaph Street](https://www.chch.live/crashes/durham-street-and-st-asaph-street), 46
- [Durham Street & Tuam Street](https://www.chch.live/crashes/durham-street-and-tuam-street), 42
- [Bealey Avenue & Durham Street](https://www.chch.live/crashes/bealey-avenue-and-durham-street), 42
- [Durham Street & State Highway 76](https://www.chch.live/crashes/durham-street-and-sh-76), 33


## Questions, answered briefly

**How many crashes have there been at Durham Street and Salisbury Street?**

28 police-reported crashes since 2006, 10 hurt somebody, 2 people killed and 1 person was seriously hurt.

**What was the worst year at Durham Street and Salisbury Street?**

2006, with 4 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash.

**Where is Durham Street and Salisbury 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/durham-street-and-salisbury-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
