Road safety information and tools

As a Safer Journeys partner, the NZ Transport Agency is committed to help plan for and improve road safety in New Zealand. For us to do that, and support others in the transport sector to do that, we provide access to important road safety information, data and tools.

The information helps us, and others, target, fund and measure the effectiveness of road safety initiatives. It provides the evidence base for making good decisions around effective road safety regulation.

Crash Analysis System (CAS) data

We have recently revised the information we make available from the Crash Analysis System (CAS) on our website to ensure we are appropriately protecting personal information. We are continuing to explore ways we can maximise the information from this system that is publicly available, while ensuring privacy is protected.

We would love to hear from you about how you use this information, and how else we might be able to meet your data needs. Please contact us at StatisticalAnalysis@nzta.govt.nz .

You can now download crash information from this website. Please see the spreadsheet in the information and tools section below.

You are also able to apply for free access to CAS for the following purposes:

• Informing transport policy and regulations,
• Designing and prioritising a range of network user behaviour and road safety initiatives,
• Supporting funding applications for network and road safety improvements,
• Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of road safety initiatives, and
• Providing information for research purposes connected with road network user behaviour, road safety and transport policy.

If you require access to information for any of these purposes, please apply for free access to CAS by contacting us at cas.administrator@nzta.govt.nz

More information about CAS.

Information and tools

The information and tools available to support road safety are:

• Disaggregated crash data — includes data relating to individual injury crashes (downloadable in .csv format).
• Road death statistics in New Zealand — updated daily and includes information on road fatalities, fatal crashes and road deaths by region.
• Crash Analysis System (CAS) — New Zealand’s primary tool for capturing information on where, when and how road crashes occur.
• Grouped crash sites — includes information on locations with four or more crashes over a three year time period.
• Aggregated crash data — includes information on deaths and serious injuries by sex, age and vehicle type and by region. It also provides injury counts from fatal and serious crashes and crash counts by crash severity.
• Road Safety Action Planning Tool — includes information drawn from various tools and used to help plan road safety interventions that are targeted to risk.
• Road Safety Wizard — includes comprehensive fatal and serious injury crash data from the past five years. Used to understand the circumstances surrounding crashes such as weather conditions, road type, contributory factors (for example, alcohol) and location. This tool provides regional information — down to suburb level. For help with the Road Safety Wizard, you can download this guide .

Responses to Parliamentary questions based on data from NZ Transport Agency systems

Parliamentary questions, both oral (OPQs) and written (WPQs), are formal questions posed by MPs to Ministers. In response to Parliamentary questions, the Minister and Associate Minister of Transport often draw on data held by the Transport Agency.

Below are responses to Parliamentary questions based on data from Transport Agency systems.

• WPQ 14644 - How many battery electric vehicles were licenced for use on New Zealand roads on 5 May 2016?
• WPQ 14645 - How many plug-in hybrid electric vehicles were licenced for use on New Zealand roads on 5 May 2016?
• WPQ 14646 - How many electric vehicles were licenced for use on New Zealand roads on 5 May 2016?
• WPQ 14944 - How many vehicles that were statutory write-offs in another country have been imported into New Zealand in each of the past 5 financial years, including country of origin?
• WPQ 14945 - How many vehicles that were statutory write-offs in another country have been registered in New Zealand in each of the past 5 financial years, including country of origin?
• WPQ 14953 - How many vehicles that were imported into New Zealand in each of the past 5 financial years, if any, failed to meet the entry certification requirements, when checked in New Zealand, broken down by country of origin of the vehicle?
• WPQ 14954 - How many of the used vehicles that were imported into New Zealand in each of the past 5 financial years, have been involved in an accident in New Zealand, broken down by the country of origin of the vehicle?
• WPQ 14955 - How many of the used vehicles that were imported into New Zealand in each of the past 5 financial years, have been involved in an accident in New Zealand involving a fatality, broken down by vehicle country of origin?
• WPQ 14956 - What percentage of the New Zealand vehicle fleet has be involved in an accident in each of the past 5 financial years?
• WPQ 14957 - What percentage of the New Zealand vehicle fleet has be involved in an accident involving a fatality in each of the past 5 financial years?
• WPQ 14958 - How many vehicles that were insurance total loss write-offs, if any, have been imported into New Zealand in each of the past 5 financial years, with country of origin?
• WPQ 14959 - How many used vehicles, if any, have been classified as 'imported as damaged' when they were imported into New Zealand in each of the past 5 financial years, with country of origin?
• WPQ 14960 - How many used vehicles, if any, have been classified as 'not imported as damaged' when they were imported into New Zealand in each of the past 5 financial years, with country of origin?
• WPQ 14961 - Further to Question 14379 (2016), how many of the vehicles that were statutory write-offs in Australia and have been registered in New Zealand over each of the past 5 financial years have been involved in road accidents?
• WPQ 14962 - Further to Question 14379 (2016), how many of the vehicles that were statutory write-offs in Australia and have been registered in New Zealand over each of the past 5 financial years have been involved in fatal road accidents?
• WPQ 14963 - How many, if any, of the used vehicles classified as 'imported as damaged' when they were imported into New Zealand have been registered in New Zealand in each of the past 5 financial years, with country of origin?
• WPQ 15183 - How many used vehicles that were imported into New Zealand in each of the past 5 financial years, have met the entry certification requirements, when checked in New Zealand, broken down by country of origin of the vehicle?
• WPQ 15184 - How many used vehicles were imported into New Zealand in each of the past 5 financial years, broken down by country of origin of the vehicle?
• WPQ 15191 - How many electric vehicles were registered in New Zealand on 5 May 2016?
• WPQ 15269 - What is the total number of demerit points handed out for driving offences each year from 2000 to present broken down by the age of the driver, if any?
• WPQ 14378 - How many vehicles that were statutory write-offs in Australia have been imported into New Zealand over each of the past 5 financial years?
• WPQ 14379 - How many vehicles that were statutory write-offs in Australia have been registered in New Zealand over each of the past 5 financial years?
• WPQ 14380 - How many vehicles that were statutory write-offs in Australia have been involved in road accidents in New Zealand in each of the past 5 financial years?

Contact us

For any queries regarding the road safety information and tools featured on this page, please contact us at statisticalanalysis@nzta.govt.nz