# Governors Bay Road & Sandy Beach Road, Christchurch 34 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2011, 18 hurt somebody, 10 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, 8 - minor, 10 - damage only, 16 ## Year by year - [2011](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2011), 1, 1 injury - [2012](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2012), 1, 1 injury - [2013](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2013), 1, 1 injury - [2014](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2014), 1, 1 injury - [2016](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2016), 3, 1 injury - [2017](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2017), 1, 1 injury - [2018](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2018), 5, 3 injury - [2019](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2019), 3 - [2020](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2020), 3, 2 injury - [2021](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2021), 4, 1 injury - [2022](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2022), 2, 1 injury - [2023](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2023), 4, 2 injury - [2024](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2024), 1, 1 injury - [2025](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2025), 3, 1 injury - [2026](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2026), 1, 1 injury _The worst year was 2018, with 5 recorded at the pairing._ ## The suburb its crashes fall in - [Cass Bay](https://www.chch.live/cass-bay), 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=-43.614064&lon=172.663361&label=Governors%20Bay%20Road%20at%20Sandy%20Beach%20Road) - [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.614064,172.663361,17) ## Who was involved - motorcycles & mopeds, 3 ## What they hit - a bank or cliff face, 14 - a ditch, 5 - over a bank, 5 - a tree, 4 - a fence, 2 - a traffic sign, 1 - another object, 1 - a post or pole, 1 ## The weather it happened in - fine, 28 - light rain, 5 - heavy rain, 1 _A second condition rode some of them, strong wind on 3, frost on 1._ ## How the crossing was controlled - no marked control, 18 - not recorded, 16 ## The vehicles on the day - cars & station wagons, 29 - vans & utes, 2 - SUVs, 1 ## Other pairings on these roads - [Dyers Pass Road & Governors Bay Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/dyers-pass-road-and-governors-bay-road), 41 - [Governors Bay Road & Omaru Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/governors-bay-road-and-omaru-road), 35 - [Governors Bay Road & Rapaki Drive](https://www.chch.live/crashes/governors-bay-road-and-rapaki-drive), 22 - [Bayview Place & Governors Bay Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/bayview-place-and-governors-bay-road), 14 - [Governors Bay Road & Mariners Cove](https://www.chch.live/crashes/governors-bay-road-and-mariners-cove), 13 - [Governors Bay Road & Main Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/governors-bay-road-and-main-road), 5 ## Questions, answered briefly **How many crashes have there been at Governors Bay Road and Sandy Beach Road?** 34 police-reported crashes since 2011, 18 hurt somebody and 10 people were seriously hurt. **What was the worst year at Governors Bay Road and Sandy Beach Road?** 2018, with 5 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash. **Where is Governors Bay Road and Sandy Beach Road?** In Cass Bay, 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/governors-bay-road-and-sandy-beach-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