# Ensors Road & Opawa Road, Christchurch 29 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2006, 12 hurt somebody, 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 - serious, 1 - minor, 11 - damage only, 17 ## Year by year - [2006](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2006), 3, 1 injury - [2007](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2007), 3, 1 injury - [2009](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2009), 2, 1 injury - [2011](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2011), 1, 1 injury - [2012](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2012), 2 - [2013](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2013), 3, 3 injury - [2014](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2014), 1 - [2016](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2016), 1 - [2017](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2017), 2, 1 injury - [2018](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2018), 4, 1 injury - [2019](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2019), 1, 1 injury - [2022](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2022), 3, 1 injury - [2023](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2023), 1 - [2024](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2024), 1, 1 injury - [2025](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2025), 1 _The worst year was 2018, with 4 recorded at the pairing._ ## The suburb its crashes fall in - [Opawa](https://www.chch.live/opawa), 25 - [Waltham](https://www.chch.live/waltham), 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=-43.550352&lon=172.659128&label=Ensors%20Road%20at%20Opawa%20Road) - [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.550352,172.659128,17) ## Who was involved - people on bicycles, 7 - trucks, 3 - people walking, 1 - motorcycles & mopeds, 1 - buses, 1 ## What they hit - a fence, 5 - a post or pole, 4 - a traffic island, 2 - a parked vehicle, 2 - a phone box or power cabinet, 1 - a house or building, 1 - a tree, 1 - a bank or cliff face, 1 ## The weather it happened in - fine, 24 - mist or fog, 2 - light rain, 2 - heavy rain, 1 _A second condition rode some of them, strong wind on 1._ ## How the crossing was controlled - a give way, 19 - no marked control, 5 - not recorded, 5 ## The vehicles on the day - cars & station wagons, 24 - vans & utes, 6 - SUVs, 4 ## Other pairings on these roads - [Ensors Road & Ferry Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/ensors-road-and-ferry-road), 58 - [Ensors Road & State Highway 76](https://www.chch.live/crashes/ensors-road-and-sh-76), 44 - [Opawa Road & State Highway 76](https://www.chch.live/crashes/opawa-road-and-sh-76), 38 - [Brougham Street & Opawa Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/brougham-street-and-opawa-road), 34 - [Brougham Street & Ensors Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/brougham-street-and-ensors-road), 25 - [Ensors Road & Sullivan Avenue](https://www.chch.live/crashes/ensors-road-and-sullivan-avenue), 23 ## Questions, answered briefly **How many crashes have there been at Ensors Road and Opawa Road?** 29 police-reported crashes since 2006, 12 hurt somebody and 1 person was seriously hurt. **What was the worst year at Ensors Road and Opawa Road?** 2018, with 4 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash. **Where is Ensors Road and Opawa Road?** In Opawa, 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/ensors-road-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