# Harper Avenue & Park Terrace, Christchurch

28 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2006, 9 hurt somebody, 1 person killed.

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, 8
- damage only, 19

## Year by year

- [2006](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2006), 3
- [2007](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2007), 2
- [2010](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2010), 2, 1 injury
- [2011](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2011), 3, 1 injury
- [2012](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2012), 2, 2 injury
- [2013](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2013), 1, 1 injury
- [2014](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2014), 1, 1 injury, 1 killed
- [2016](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2016), 4, 1 injury
- [2017](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2017), 2
- [2018](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2018), 3, 1 injury
- [2019](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2019), 2
- [2022](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2022), 1
- [2023](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2023), 1
- [2024](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2024), 1, 1 injury

_The worst year was 2016, with 4 recorded at the pairing._

## The suburb its crashes fall in

- [Christchurch Central](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city), 16
- [Merivale](https://www.chch.live/merivale), 12

_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=-43.521624&lon=172.624764&label=Harper%20Avenue%20at%20Park%20Terrace)
- [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.521624,172.624764,17)

## Who was involved

- people walking, 2
- motorcycles & mopeds, 2
- trucks, 2
- people on bicycles, 1

## What they hit

- a post or pole, 4
- a fence, 3
- a parked vehicle, 2
- a guard rail, 1
- a traffic island, 1
- a phone box or power cabinet, 1
- a traffic sign, 1

## The weather it happened in

- fine, 26
- light rain, 2

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

## How the crossing was controlled

- not recorded, 16
- traffic signals, 11
- no marked control, 1

## The vehicles on the day

- cars & station wagons, 25
- vans & utes, 4
- taxis, 1
- unrecorded vehicles, 1

## The people who died, 1

- [2014](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2014)

## Other pairings on these roads

- [Bealey Avenue & Harper Avenue](https://www.chch.live/crashes/bealey-avenue-and-harper-avenue), 26
- [Fendalton Road & Harper Avenue](https://www.chch.live/crashes/fendalton-road-and-harper-avenue), 25
- [Bealey Avenue & Park Terrace](https://www.chch.live/crashes/bealey-avenue-and-park-terrace), 24
- [Cressy Terrace & Park Terrace](https://www.chch.live/crashes/cressy-terrace-and-park-terrace), 22
- [Carlton Mill Road & Harper Avenue](https://www.chch.live/crashes/carlton-mill-road-and-harper-avenue), 21
- [Harper Avenue & Helmores Lane](https://www.chch.live/crashes/harper-avenue-and-helmores-lane), 20


## Questions, answered briefly

**How many crashes have there been at Harper Avenue and Park Terrace?**

28 police-reported crashes since 2006, 9 hurt somebody, 1 person killed.

**What was the worst year at Harper Avenue and Park Terrace?**

2016, with 4 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash.

**Where is Harper Avenue and Park Terrace?**

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/harper-avenue-and-park-terrace
All pairings: https://www.chch.live/crashes/intersections
Whole record: https://www.chch.live/crashes
Source: NZTA Crash Analysis System (CAS), police-reported crashes
