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Buchanans Road

11 reports at 6 addresses in Broomfield, the first in 2020, the latest 2025. 10 separate days somebody filed something about it.

11 reports6 addresses10 days reported onfrom the air, then10 documents carry the namethe 3194th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

190B Buchanans Road, 4 reports202B Buchanans Road, 2 reports108 Buchanans Road, 2 reports216A Buchanans Road, 1 report154 Buchanans Road, 1 report152 Buchanans Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Buchanans Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Buchanans Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Buchanans Road 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 addresses on it

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Buchanans Road in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Buchanans Road & State Highway 1S, 47 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Buchanans Road?

In Broomfield, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Buchanans Road?

11 reports at 6 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (6), graffiti & vandalism (3), roads & footpaths (1).

When was Buchanans Road first reported on?

2020, the record covers 10 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

What is the busiest corner on Buchanans Road?

Buchanans Road and State Highway 1S, 47 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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