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28 March 2025
Matthew King
[FYI request #30368 email]
REF: OIA-17828
Dear Matthew
Request made under the Official Information Act 1982
Thank you for your email
of 10 March 2025 requesting the following information under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act):
Similar to the 2023 request from Thorndon Residents' Association [OIA—11872], can I get a
breakdown of incidents involving pedestrians crossing at the Waltham Road - Bunyan Street -
Rogers Street intersection over the last ten years?
The same spreadsheet format from the said 2023 request wil work.
There have been no crashes recorded in the Crash Analysis System (CAS) between 2015 and 2025 at
the Waltham Road - Bunyan Street - Rogers Street intersection involving pedestrians as at 12 March
2025.
It is important to note the fol owing in relation to the information provided:
• This data is provided from the road traffic crash database; Crash Analysis System (CAS)
version 2.12.2.
• NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) maintains CAS which is updated once a Traffic
Crash Report (TCR) is received from NZ Police sometime after the crash.
• Data is for al crashes for the years 2015 to 2025 as recorded in CAS to date - 12/03/2025.
• A crash, to be recorded in CAS must have occurred on a road. The CAS definition of a road is
• Due to the police reporting time frame and subsequent data processing, there is a lag from the
time of a crash to full and correct crash records within CAS.
• Fatal crash report data is usually recorded in CAS within one working day of Waka Kotahi
receiving it from NZ Police. Serious Injury and Minor injury crash report data is usually
recorded in CAS within 4 weeks. Data relating to non-injury crashes may take up to 7 months
before it appears in CAS.
• Due to the nature of non-fatal crashes, it is believed that these are under-reported, with the
level of under-reporting decreasing with the increasing severity of the crash.
• Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, NZ had a 4-level Alert system in place from 21 March 2020
until this changed to a Traffic Light system from 3 December 2021 to 12 September 2022. The
amount of traffic on the roads during level 4 lockdowns was greatly reduced, which
consequently reduced the number of road crashes. Road movements under the Orange and
Red levels of the Traffic Light system would also be reduced due to the restrictions in place,
so data from these periods wil not align with previous trends.
• 2024 and 2025 data is not yet complete in CAS but is the current information from CAS as at
12/03/2025.
In line with NZTA policy, this response wil soon be published on our website, with personal
information removed.
If you would like to discuss this reply with NZTA, please contact Kerry Greig, Manager, Statistical
Services, by email to [email address].
Yours sincerely
Galina Mitchelhill
National Manager, Insights & Analytics
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