# Manchester Street & Moorhouse Avenue, Christchurch

88 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2006, 31 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, 28
- damage only, 57

## Year by year

- [2006](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2006), 10, 5 injury
- [2007](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2007), 13, 4 injury
- [2008](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2008), 9, 4 injury
- [2009](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2009), 9
- [2010](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2010), 8, 4 injury
- [2011](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2011), 7, 3 injury
- [2012](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2012), 6, 2 injury
- [2013](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2013), 9, 3 injury
- [2014](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2014), 6, 3 injury
- [2015](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2015), 5, 2 injury
- [2016](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2016), 4
- [2017](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2017), 1
- [2018](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2018), 1, 1 injury

_The worst year was 2007, with 13 recorded at the pairing._

## The suburb its crashes fall in

- [Sydenham](https://www.chch.live/sydenham), 83
- [Christchurch Central](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city), 5

_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=-43.539831&lon=172.639591&label=Manchester%20Street%20at%20Moorhouse%20Avenue)
- [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.539831,172.639591,17)

## Who was involved

- motorcycles & mopeds, 6
- people on bicycles, 4
- people walking, 4
- trucks, 4
- buses, 3

## What they hit

- a traffic island, 4
- a tree, 1
- another object, 1
- a post or pole, 1
- a traffic sign, 1

## The weather it happened in

- fine, 74
- light rain, 8
- heavy rain, 4
- mist or fog, 1

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

## How the crossing was controlled

- traffic signals, 66
- not recorded, 14
- no marked control, 6
- a give way, 1
- a stop sign, 1

## The vehicles on the day

- cars & station wagons, 80
- vans & utes, 12
- SUVs, 10
- taxis, 1

## Other pairings on these roads

- [Bealey Avenue & Manchester Street](https://www.chch.live/crashes/bealey-avenue-and-manchester-street), 111
- [Lincoln Road & Moorhouse Avenue](https://www.chch.live/crashes/lincoln-road-and-moorhouse-avenue), 94
- [Durham Street & Moorhouse Avenue](https://www.chch.live/crashes/durham-street-and-moorhouse-avenue), 92
- [Fitzgerald Avenue & Moorhouse Avenue](https://www.chch.live/crashes/fitzgerald-avenue-and-moorhouse-avenue), 84
- [Moorhouse Avenue & Selwyn Street](https://www.chch.live/crashes/moorhouse-avenue-and-selwyn-street), 74
- [Montreal Street & Moorhouse Avenue](https://www.chch.live/crashes/montreal-street-and-moorhouse-avenue), 68


## Questions, answered briefly

**How many crashes have there been at Manchester Street and Moorhouse Avenue?**

88 police-reported crashes since 2006, 31 hurt somebody and 3 people were seriously hurt.

**What was the worst year at Manchester Street and Moorhouse Avenue?**

2007, with 13 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash.

**Where is Manchester Street and Moorhouse Avenue?**

In Sydenham, 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/manchester-street-and-moorhouse-avenue
All pairings: https://www.chch.live/crashes/intersections
Whole record: https://www.chch.live/crashes
Source: NZTA Crash Analysis System (CAS), police-reported crashes
