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James Hight Drive

33 reports at 15 addresses in Halswell, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 32 separate days somebody filed something about it.

33 reports15 addresses32 days reported onfrom the air, thenthe 1766th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

32 James Hight Drive, 13 reports29 James Hight Drive, 4 reports2 James Hight Drive, 4 reports6 James Hight Drive, 1 report5 James Hight Drive, 1 report4 James Hight Drive, 1 report30 James Hight Drive, 1 report3 James Hight Drive, 1 report23 James Hight Drive, 1 report21 James Hight Drive, 1 report1–17 James Hight Drive, 1 report19 James Hight Drive, 1 report16 James Hight Drive, 1 report14 James Hight Drive, 1 report1 James Hight Drive, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on James Hight Drive, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Halswell.

From the air, then

James Hight Drive from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
James Hight Drive from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
James Hight Drive from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
James Hight Drive from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names James Hight Drive in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is James Hight Drive?

In Halswell, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on James Hight Drive?

33 reports at 15 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (14), trees & parks (8), water & drains (6).

When was James Hight Drive first reported on?

2019, the record covers 32 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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