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Colac Street

3 council reports at 3 addresses on Colac Street, Avondale, on record since October 2025.

3 reports3 addresses3 days reported onfrom the air, then

Where it runs

5 Colac Street, 1 report4 Colac Street, 1 report1 Colac Street, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Colac Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Avondale.

From the air, then

Colac Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Colac Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Colac Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The numbered spots

What got reported

Year by year

2026 was still in progress when this page was drawn and is left off.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Colac Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Latest on record

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Colac Street?

In Avondale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Colac Street?

3 reports at 3 addresses, most often water & drains (1), vehicles & parking (1), roads & footpaths (1).

When was Colac Street first reported on?

2025, the record covers 3 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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