# Memorial Avenue & State Highway 1S, Christchurch 149 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2006, 33 hurt somebody, 5 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, 2 - minor, 31 - damage only, 116 ## Year by year - [2006](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2006), 1 - [2007](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2007), 10, 2 injury - [2008](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2008), 12, 1 injury - [2009](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2009), 15, 6 injury - [2010](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2010), 14, 2 injury - [2011](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2011), 15, 3 injury - [2012](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2012), 12, 5 injury - [2013](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2013), 15, 5 injury - [2014](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2014), 16, 3 injury - [2015](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2015), 16, 2 injury - [2016](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2016), 10, 1 injury - [2017](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2017), 9, 2 injury - [2018](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2018), 4, 1 injury _The worst year was 2014, with 16 recorded at the pairing._ ## The suburb its crashes fall in - [Burnside](https://www.chch.live/burnside), 144 - [Christchurch Airport](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-airport), 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=-43.493085&lon=172.549931&label=Memorial%20Avenue%20at%20State%20Highway%201S) - [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.493085,172.549931,17) ## Who was involved - trucks, 21 - people on bicycles, 3 - motorcycles & mopeds, 2 - buses, 1 ## What they hit - a kerb, 3 - a parked vehicle, 3 - a traffic sign, 2 - a fence, 1 - a traffic island, 1 - a tree, 1 - another object, 1 - a guard rail, 1 ## The weather it happened in - fine, 131 - light rain, 10 - heavy rain, 5 - mist or fog, 3 _A second condition rode some of them, strong wind on 2._ ## How the crossing was controlled - a give way, 117 - not recorded, 18 - traffic signals, 9 - no marked control, 5 ## The vehicles on the day - cars & station wagons, 132 - SUVs, 31 - vans & utes, 23 - taxis, 2 - other vehicles, 1 ## Other pairings on these roads - [Grahams Road & Memorial Avenue](https://www.chch.live/crashes/grahams-road-and-memorial-avenue), 79 - [Greers Road & Memorial Avenue](https://www.chch.live/crashes/greers-road-and-memorial-avenue), 74 - [Ilam Road & Memorial Avenue](https://www.chch.live/crashes/ilam-road-and-memorial-avenue), 71 - [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 ## Questions, answered briefly **How many crashes have there been at Memorial Avenue and State Highway 1S?** 149 police-reported crashes since 2006, 33 hurt somebody and 5 people were seriously hurt. **What was the worst year at Memorial Avenue and State Highway 1S?** 2014, with 16 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash. **Where is Memorial Avenue and State Highway 1S?** In Burnside, 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/memorial-avenue-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