# Main South Road & State Highway 73, Christchurch 97 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2007, 34 hurt somebody, 2 people 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, 30 - damage only, 63 ## Year by year - [2007](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2007), 8, 3 injury - [2008](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2008), 7, 2 injury - [2009](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2009), 7, 3 injury - [2010](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2010), 6, 3 injury - [2011](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2011), 9, 2 injury, 2 killed - [2012](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2012), 7, 4 injury - [2013](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2013), 7, 2 injury - [2014](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2014), 13, 5 injury - [2015](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2015), 10, 5 injury - [2016](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2016), 11, 2 injury - [2017](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2017), 10, 3 injury - [2018](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2018), 2 _The worst year was 2014, with 13 recorded at the pairing._ ## The suburb its crashes fall in - [Sockburn](https://www.chch.live/sockburn), 97 _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=-43.532376&lon=172.567389&label=Main%20South%20Road%20at%20State%20Highway%2073) - [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.532376,172.567389,17) ## Who was involved - trucks, 9 - motorcycles & mopeds, 5 - people on bicycles, 3 - people walking, 2 - buses, 2 ## What they hit - a traffic sign, 4 - a post or pole, 4 - a fence, 2 - a phone box or power cabinet, 1 - a traffic island, 1 ## The weather it happened in - fine, 74 - light rain, 16 - snow, 3 - heavy rain, 2 - mist or fog, 1 _A second condition rode some of them, frost on 1._ ## How the crossing was controlled - traffic signals, 70 - not recorded, 12 - a give way, 8 - no marked control, 7 ## The vehicles on the day - cars & station wagons, 92 - vans & utes, 13 - SUVs, 12 ## The people who died, 2 - [2011](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2011), 2 people ## Other pairings on these roads - [Blenheim Road & Main South Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/blenheim-road-and-main-south-road), 157 - [Main South Road & Riccarton Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/main-south-road-and-riccarton-road), 75 - [Blenheim Road & State Highway 73](https://www.chch.live/crashes/blenheim-road-and-sh-73), 74 - [State Highway 1S & State Highway 73](https://www.chch.live/crashes/sh-1s-and-sh-73), 60 - [Epsom Road & Main South Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/epsom-road-and-main-south-road), 58 - [Main South Road & Springs Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/main-south-road-and-springs-road), 58 ## Questions, answered briefly **How many crashes have there been at Main South Road and State Highway 73?** 97 police-reported crashes since 2007, 34 hurt somebody, 2 people killed and 3 people were seriously hurt. **What was the worst year at Main South Road and State Highway 73?** 2014, with 13 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash. **Where is Main South Road and State Highway 73?** In Sockburn, 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/main-south-road-and-sh-73 All pairings: https://www.chch.live/crashes/intersections Whole record: https://www.chch.live/crashes Source: NZTA Crash Analysis System (CAS), police-reported crashes