About this site

About Christchurch City Road Crash Insight

Christchurch City Road Crash Insight is part of NZ Road Crash Insight, an independent publication of the NZ Road Crash Insight editorial office. It turns the official open crash data for Christchurch City into trends, maps, comparisons and a searchable record, so that residents, journalists, researchers and planners can see what has been reported.

This is not a government website

Christchurch City Road Crash Insight is not operated by, affiliated with or endorsed by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, NZ Police, the Ministry of Transport, Stats NZ or any council. Their names appear only to identify the source of the data. No government logo or emblem is used.

What this site does not do

• It does not rate roads, intersections or areas as safe or dangerous. The data have no traffic volumes, distances travelled or road lengths, so crash counts are not crash rates. A higher count does not mean an area or road is more dangerous: busier and larger places record more crashes.
• It does not publish or try to work out who was involved in any crash.
• It does not give legal, insurance or driving advice.

How the site is organised

There is one national site and one site for each of the 67 districts and cities (territorial authorities). Each area’s site uses only the crashes recorded for that area.

Corrections

If something looks wrong, check it against the source on the sources page; the source is authoritative. To report a mistake, write to info@nzroadcrashinsight.com. Corrections to the crash records themselves can only be made by the publisher.