# Hansons Lane & Riccarton Road, Christchurch 50 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2006, 20 hurt somebody, 1 person killed, 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 - fatal, 1 - serious, 3 - minor, 16 - damage only, 30 ## Year by year - [2006](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2006), 5, 2 injury - [2007](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2007), 5, 1 injury - [2008](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2008), 5, 1 injury - [2010](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2010), 2, 2 injury - [2011](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2011), 4, 2 injury - [2012](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2012), 2, 2 injury - [2014](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2014), 4, 1 injury - [2015](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2015), 3, 2 injury - [2017](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2017), 2 - [2018](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2018), 3 - [2020](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2020), 2 - [2021](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2021), 6, 3 injury, 1 killed - [2022](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2022), 1, 1 injury - [2023](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2023), 1 - [2024](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2024), 3, 2 injury - [2025](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2025), 1, 1 injury - [2026](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2026), 1 _The worst year was 2021, with 6 recorded at the pairing._ ## The suburb its crashes fall in - [Upper Riccarton](https://www.chch.live/upper-riccarton), 50 _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=-43.531942&lon=172.573629&label=Hansons%20Lane%20at%20Riccarton%20Road) - [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.531942,172.573629,17) ## Who was involved - people walking, 7 - people on bicycles, 5 - motorcycles & mopeds, 5 - buses, 1 ## What they hit - a traffic sign, 2 - a fence, 1 - a phone box or power cabinet, 1 - another object, 1 - a post or pole, 1 ## The weather it happened in - fine, 37 - light rain, 8 - mist or fog, 2 _A second condition rode some of them, strong wind on 1._ ## How the crossing was controlled - traffic signals, 29 - no marked control, 16 - not recorded, 5 ## The vehicles on the day - cars & station wagons, 44 - SUVs, 4 - vans & utes, 3 - unrecorded vehicles, 1 ## The people who died, 1 - [2021](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2021) ## Other pairings on these roads - [Deans Avenue & Riccarton Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/deans-avenue-and-riccarton-road), 75 - [Main South Road & Riccarton Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/main-south-road-and-riccarton-road), 75 - [Ilam Road & Riccarton Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/ilam-road-and-riccarton-road), 68 - [Riccarton Road & Straven Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/riccarton-road-and-straven-road), 68 - [Matipo Street & Riccarton Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/matipo-street-and-riccarton-road), 67 - [Riccarton Road & Waimairi Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/riccarton-road-and-waimairi-road), 64 ## Questions, answered briefly **How many crashes have there been at Hansons Lane and Riccarton Road?** 50 police-reported crashes since 2006, 20 hurt somebody, 1 person killed and 3 people were seriously hurt. **What was the worst year at Hansons Lane and Riccarton Road?** 2021, with 6 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash. **Where is Hansons Lane and Riccarton Road?** In Upper Riccarton, 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/hansons-lane-and-riccarton-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