# Hendersons Road & Sparks Road, Christchurch 45 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2006, 16 hurt somebody, 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 - serious, 3 - minor, 13 - damage only, 29 ## Year by year - [2006](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2006), 3 - [2007](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2007), 3, 1 injury - [2008](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2008), 1 - [2009](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2009), 2, 1 injury - [2010](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2010), 2, 2 injury - [2011](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2011), 4, 3 injury - [2012](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2012), 2, 1 injury - [2013](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2013), 3, 2 injury - [2014](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2014), 2 - [2015](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2015), 3, 1 injury - [2016](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2016), 2 - [2017](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2017), 1 - [2019](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2019), 2, 1 injury - [2020](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2020), 3, 2 injury - [2021](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2021), 1 - [2022](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2022), 3, 2 injury - [2023](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2023), 2 - [2024](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2024), 3 - [2025](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2025), 2 - [2026](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2026), 1 _The worst year was 2011, with 4 recorded at the pairing._ ## The suburb its crashes fall in - [Hoon Hay](https://www.chch.live/hoon-hay), 24 - [Halswell](https://www.chch.live/halswell), 19 - [Westmorland](https://www.chch.live/westmorland), 2 _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=-43.571324&lon=172.590291&label=Hendersons%20Road%20at%20Sparks%20Road) - [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.571324,172.590291,17) ## Who was involved - people on bicycles, 4 - motorcycles & mopeds, 3 - trucks, 1 ## What they hit - a post or pole, 9 - a ditch, 8 - a fence, 6 - a parked vehicle, 4 - a traffic island, 3 - a tree, 3 - water or a river, 1 - a traffic sign, 1 ## The weather it happened in - fine, 36 - light rain, 7 - heavy rain, 1 _A second condition rode some of them, frost on 1._ ## How the crossing was controlled - not recorded, 19 - a give way, 11 - no marked control, 11 - traffic signals, 4 ## The vehicles on the day - cars & station wagons, 43 - SUVs, 7 - vans & utes, 4 - unrecorded vehicles, 1 ## Other pairings on these roads - [Hoon Hay Road & Sparks Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/hoon-hay-road-and-sparks-road), 37 - [Lyttelton Street & Sparks Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/lyttelton-street-and-sparks-road), 21 - [Hendersons Road & State Highway 75](https://www.chch.live/crashes/hendersons-road-and-sh-75), 16 - [Cashmere Road & Hendersons Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/cashmere-road-and-hendersons-road), 13 - [State Highway 75 & Sparks Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/sh-75-and-sparks-road), 12 - [Milns Road & Sparks Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/milns-road-and-sparks-road), 9 ## Questions, answered briefly **How many crashes have there been at Hendersons Road and Sparks Road?** 45 police-reported crashes since 2006, 16 hurt somebody and 3 people were seriously hurt. **What was the worst year at Hendersons Road and Sparks Road?** 2011, with 4 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash. **Where is Hendersons Road and Sparks Road?** In Hoon Hay, 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/hendersons-road-and-sparks-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