NZ Road Crash InsightChristchurch City home

Vehicles · 2021–2025

Vehicles and road users involved in Christchurch City

Share of crashes involving at least one of each type. A crash with a car and a bicycle counts once for each, so shares add up to more than 100%.

All crashes

All 9,553 crashes

  • Car / station wagon87.3%8,344 crashes · New Zealand 80.8%
  • Van / ute14.9%1,428 crashes · New Zealand 20.4%
  • SUV12.5%1,197 crashes · New Zealand 12.9%
  • Bicycle7.1%681 crashes · New Zealand 2.6%
  • Pedestrian5.6%531 crashes · New Zealand 4.0%
  • Motorcycle4.7%445 crashes · New Zealand 4.7%
  • Truck4.2%406 crashes · New Zealand 7.0%
  • Unknown vehicle2.1%200 crashes · New Zealand 2.0%
  • Bus1.6%153 crashes · New Zealand 1.6%
  • Taxi1.2%114 crashes · New Zealand 0.8%
  • Moped1.0%99 crashes · New Zealand 0.6%
  • Other vehicle0.5%48 crashes · New Zealand 0.9%
  • School bus0.1%6 crashes · New Zealand 0.2%
  • Train0.0%2 crashes · New Zealand 0.0%

This area New Zealand

Fatal and serious

639 fatal and serious-injury crashes

  • Car / station wagon69.6%445 crashes · New Zealand 63.0%
  • Bicycle21.4%137 crashes · New Zealand 7.2%
  • Motorcycle19.7%126 crashes · New Zealand 22.1%
  • Pedestrian16.6%106 crashes · New Zealand 13.2%
  • Van / ute15.5%99 crashes · New Zealand 20.4%
  • SUV10.3%66 crashes · New Zealand 11.0%
  • Truck4.7%30 crashes · New Zealand 8.1%
  • Moped2.8%18 crashes · New Zealand 1.3%
  • Bus1.4%9 crashes · New Zealand 1.8%
  • Unknown vehicle1.4%9 crashes · New Zealand 1.0%
  • Taxi0.9%6 crashes · New Zealand 0.6%
  • Other vehicle0.8%5 crashes · New Zealand 2.0%
  • School bus0.2%1 crashes · New Zealand 0.2%
  • Train0.2%1 crashes · New Zealand 0.2%

This area New Zealand

Pedestrians are counted from the CAS “pedestrian” field. Car / station wagon, SUV and van / ute are recorded separately in CAS.