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Wrights Road

43 reports at 7 addresses in Middleton, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 37 separate days somebody filed something about it.

43 reports7 addresses37 days reported onfrom the air, then8 documents carry the namethe 1620th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

67 Wrights Road, 26 reports130 Wrights Road, 5 reports71 Wrights Road, 4 reports69 Wrights Road, 4 reports131 Wrights Road, 2 reports65 Wrights Road, 1 report132 Wrights Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Wrights Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wrights Road from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wrights Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wrights 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 Wrights Road in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Birmingham Drive & Wrights Road, 34 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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 Wrights Road?

In Middleton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Wrights Road?

43 reports at 7 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (29), roads & footpaths (6), rubbish & dumping (3).

When was Wrights Road first reported on?

2019, the record covers 37 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Wrights Road?

Birmingham Drive and Wrights Road, 34 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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