# Prestons Road & State Highway 74, Christchurch 28 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2007, 13 hurt somebody, 4 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, 15 ## Year by year - [2007](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2007), 4, 2 injury - [2008](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2008), 1 - [2009](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2009), 4, 2 injury - [2011](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2011), 2 - [2012](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2012), 5, 2 injury - [2013](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2013), 3, 2 injury - [2015](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2015), 3 - [2016](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2016), 1, 1 injury - [2017](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2017), 1, 1 injury - [2018](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2018), 4, 3 injury _The worst year was 2012, with 5 recorded at the pairing._ ## The suburb its crashes fall in - [Redwood](https://www.chch.live/redwood), 28 _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=-43.473658&lon=172.617288&label=Prestons%20Road%20at%20State%20Highway%2074) - [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.473658,172.617288,17) ## Who was involved - people on bicycles, 2 - motorcycles & mopeds, 2 - trucks, 2 - people walking, 1 - buses, 1 ## What they hit - a fence, 3 - a post or pole, 2 - a bank or cliff face, 1 - another object, 1 - a parked vehicle, 1 - a house or building, 1 - a tree, 1 ## The weather it happened in - fine, 24 - heavy rain, 2 - light rain, 2 ## How the crossing was controlled - traffic signals, 21 - not recorded, 4 - no marked control, 3 ## The vehicles on the day - cars & station wagons, 25 - SUVs, 7 - vans & utes, 3 ## Other pairings on these roads - [Marshland Road & Prestons Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/marshland-road-and-prestons-road), 184 - [Marshland Road & State Highway 74](https://www.chch.live/crashes/marshland-road-and-sh-74), 179 - [Main North Road & State Highway 74](https://www.chch.live/crashes/main-north-road-and-sh-74), 85 - [Pages Road & State Highway 74](https://www.chch.live/crashes/pages-road-and-sh-74), 51 - [State Highway 74 & Wainoni Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/sh-74-and-wainoni-road), 45 - [State Highway 74 & Styx Mill Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/sh-74-and-styx-mill-road), 45 ## Questions, answered briefly **How many crashes have there been at Prestons Road and State Highway 74?** 28 police-reported crashes since 2007, 13 hurt somebody and 4 people were seriously hurt. **What was the worst year at Prestons Road and State Highway 74?** 2012, with 5 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash. **Where is Prestons Road and State Highway 74?** In Redwood, 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/prestons-road-and-sh-74 All pairings: https://www.chch.live/crashes/intersections Whole record: https://www.chch.live/crashes Source: NZTA Crash Analysis System (CAS), police-reported crashes