# Selwyn Street & State Highway 76, Christchurch

60 crashes police-reported, recorded at this road pairing since 2006, 23 hurt somebody, 2 people killed, 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

- fatal, 2
- serious, 5
- minor, 16
- damage only, 37

## Year by year

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

_The worst year was 2014, with 9 recorded at the pairing._

## The suburb its crashes fall in

- [Addington](https://www.chch.live/addington), 59
- [Spreydon](https://www.chch.live/spreydon), 1

_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=-43.547425&lon=172.621752&label=Selwyn%20Street%20at%20State%20Highway%2076)
- [The live map](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.547425,172.621752,17)

## Who was involved

- trucks, 10
- people walking, 6
- people on bicycles, 5
- motorcycles & mopeds, 5
- buses, 1

## What they hit

- a parked vehicle, 9
- a post or pole, 5
- a traffic sign, 2
- a fence, 2
- a tree, 2
- a traffic island, 1

## The weather it happened in

- fine, 55
- light rain, 4

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

## How the crossing was controlled

- traffic signals, 40
- not recorded, 14
- no marked control, 6

## The vehicles on the day

- cars & station wagons, 55
- vans & utes, 8
- SUVs, 7

## The people who died, 2

- [2011](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2011)
- [2017](https://www.chch.live/crashes/2017)

## Other pairings on these roads

- [Colombo Street & State Highway 76](https://www.chch.live/crashes/colombo-street-and-sh-76), 87
- [Moorhouse Avenue & Selwyn Street](https://www.chch.live/crashes/moorhouse-avenue-and-selwyn-street), 74
- [State Highway 76 & Springs Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/sh-76-and-springs-road), 67
- [State Highway 76 & Waltham Road](https://www.chch.live/crashes/sh-76-and-waltham-road), 46
- [Ensors Road & State Highway 76](https://www.chch.live/crashes/ensors-road-and-sh-76), 44
- [Gasson Street & State Highway 76](https://www.chch.live/crashes/gasson-street-and-sh-76), 40


## Questions, answered briefly

**How many crashes have there been at Selwyn Street and State Highway 76?**

60 police-reported crashes since 2006, 23 hurt somebody, 2 people killed and 5 people were seriously hurt.

**What was the worst year at Selwyn Street and State Highway 76?**

2014, with 9 crashes recorded at the pairing, severity counts the worst injury in each crash.

**Where is Selwyn Street and State Highway 76?**

In Addington, 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/selwyn-street-and-sh-76
All pairings: https://www.chch.live/crashes/intersections
Whole record: https://www.chch.live/crashes
Source: NZTA Crash Analysis System (CAS), police-reported crashes
