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Racecourse Road & State Highway 73

31 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2006, 17 hurt somebody and 5 people were seriously hurt. The 250th most-recorded pairing in the city.

The streets it names: Racecourse Road · State Highway 73

Crashes on record
31
Hurt somebody
17
People killed
none
Seriously hurt
5

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.

At the pin: what stands there · the live map

By severity

serious 5
minor 12
damage only 14

Severity is the worst injury in the crash.

Year by year

The worst year was 2008, with 5 crashes recorded at the pairing.

The suburb its crashes fall in

Read from each crash’s coordinates.

Who was involved

people on bicycles 4
motorcycles & mopeds 3
trucks 2

Crashes in which that kind of road user appears, one crash can carry several.

What gets hit here

a kerb 2
a parked vehicle 2
a tree 1
a fence 1
a traffic island 1
a post or pole 1

What the reports say was struck at this pairing, a crash can hit several things and most hit nothing at all.

How the crossing was controlled

a give way 20
not recorded 8
no marked control 3

The control CAS recorded at the spot, what held the traffic, not which rule was broken.

The weather it happened in

fine 28
light rain 2
heavy rain 1

The vehicles involved

cars & station wagons 31
SUVs 3
taxis 1
vans & utes 1

The rest of the fleet, the bikes, motorbikes and trucks are counted with the road users above.

Other pairings on these roads

The record behind this

Every figure comes from NZTA’s Crash Analysis System, filtered to Christchurch City. CAS locates a crash by the nearest pair of roads, so this page counts 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.

Every pairing in the city is ranked at /crashes/intersections; the map and the whole-record charts are at /crashes. This page as markdown: /crashes/racecourse-road-and-sh-73.md.

Questions, answered briefly

How many crashes have there been at Racecourse Road and State Highway 73?

31 police-reported crashes since 2006, 17 hurt somebody and 5 people were seriously hurt.

What was the worst year at Racecourse Road and State Highway 73?

2008, with 5 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash.

Where is Racecourse 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.