# Kirk Road & State Highway 1S, Christchurch 37 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2007, 13 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, 10 - damage only, 24 ## Year by year - [2007](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2007), 6, 3 injury - [2008](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2008), 2, 2 injury - [2009](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2009), 3, 1 injury - [2010](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2010), 1 - [2011](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2011), 4, 2 injury - [2012](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2012), 3, 1 injury - [2013](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2013), 3 - [2014](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2014), 4, 2 injury - [2015](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2015), 3 - [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), 2, 1 injury _The worst year was 2007, with 6 recorded at the pairing._ ## The suburb its crashes fall in - [Templeton](https://www.chch.live/templeton), 37 _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=-43.554363&lon=172.474471&label=Kirk%20Road%20at%20State%20Highway%201S) - [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.554363,172.474471,17) ## Who was involved - trucks, 7 - motorcycles & mopeds, 3 ## What they hit - a traffic sign, 1 - a ditch, 1 - a bank or cliff face, 1 - a tree, 1 - a traffic island, 1 - a post or pole, 1 - a parked vehicle, 1 ## The weather it happened in - fine, 35 - heavy rain, 1 - light rain, 1 ## How the crossing was controlled - a stop sign, 22 - not recorded, 8 - no marked control, 6 - a give way, 1 ## The vehicles on the day - cars & station wagons, 35 - SUVs, 7 - vans & utes, 7 ## Other pairings on these roads - [Memorial Avenue & State Highway 1S](https://www.chch.live/crashes/memorial-avenue-and-sh-1s), 149 - [Sawyers Arms Road & State Highway 1S](https://www.chch.live/crashes/sawyers-arms-road-and-sh-1s), 65 - [Dickeys Road & State Highway 1S](https://www.chch.live/crashes/dickeys-road-and-sh-1s), 61 - [State Highway 1S & State Highway 73](https://www.chch.live/crashes/sh-1s-and-sh-73), 60 - [State Highway 1S & Wairakei Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/sh-1s-and-wairakei-road), 53 - [State Highway 1S & Waterloo Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/sh-1s-and-waterloo-road), 51 ## Questions, answered briefly **How many crashes have there been at Kirk Road and State Highway 1S?** 37 police-reported crashes since 2007, 13 hurt somebody and 3 people were seriously hurt. **What was the worst year at Kirk Road and State Highway 1S?** 2007, with 6 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash. **Where is Kirk Road and State Highway 1S?** In Templeton, 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/kirk-road-and-sh-1s All pairings: https://www.chch.live/crashes/intersections Whole record: https://www.chch.live/crashes Source: NZTA Crash Analysis System (CAS), police-reported crashes