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Corridor record

Whangaparaoa Road

Stanmore Bay · lowered 2 March 2023, raised again 25 March 2025

Before
60 km/h
until 2 March 2023
Lower limit
50 km/h
2 March 2023 to 25 March 2025
Raised again
60 km/h
from 25 March 2025

Where the crashes happened

The blue line is the official Auckland Transport speed-change geometry for this section. Each dot is a crash that CAS places on the treated road; colours show which speed-limit period it fell in. Larger red-ringed dots are crashes in which someone died or was seriously injured.

Before During lower limit After raised Death or serious injury

What the monthly record shows

Adjusted for Auckland-wide traffic trends, the observed crash rate was 38% lower while the lower limit applied (compared with before), and 17% higher after the limit went back up (compared with the lower-limit period). Single-road counts are noisy, so read this alongside the pooled estimate on the corridor results page.

Crashes by monthBars are matched crashes; darker segment is injury crashes; dashed lines are each period’s monthly average01234May 2018: 1 crashes, 0 injuryAug 2018: 1 crashes, 1 injurySep 2018: 1 crashes, 0 injuryOct 2018: 1 crashes, 1 injuryNov 2018: 2 crashes, 2 injuryMay 2019: 1 crashes, 1 injuryJul 2019: 1 crashes, 0 injuryAug 2019: 1 crashes, 0 injurySep 2019: 2 crashes, 0 injuryOct 2019: 1 crashes, 0 injuryNov 2019: 1 crashes, 1 injuryApr 2020: 1 crashes, 1 injuryJun 2020: 2 crashes, 0 injuryJul 2020: 1 crashes, 1 injuryOct 2020: 2 crashes, 0 injuryDec 2020: 1 crashes, 0 injuryFeb 2021: 1 crashes, 1 injuryMar 2021: 1 crashes, 1 injuryApr 2021: 1 crashes, 0 injuryMay 2021: 1 crashes, 0 injuryJun 2021: 1 crashes, 0 injurySep 2021: 2 crashes, 1 injuryNov 2021: 1 crashes, 0 injuryDec 2021: 2 crashes, 0 injuryFeb 2022: 3 crashes, 1 injuryMar 2022: 2 crashes, 1 injuryApr 2022: 1 crashes, 0 injuryMay 2022: 2 crashes, 1 injuryJun 2022: 1 crashes, 0 injuryAug 2022: 1 crashes, 1 injurySep 2022: 3 crashes, 1 injuryOct 2022: 3 crashes, 0 injuryDec 2022: 1 crashes, 1 injuryApr 2023: 1 crashes, 0 injuryJul 2023: 2 crashes, 0 injuryMar 2024: 1 crashes, 1 injuryApr 2024: 1 crashes, 0 injuryMay 2024: 1 crashes, 1 injuryJun 2024: 1 crashes, 0 injuryOct 2024: 2 crashes, 1 injuryNov 2024: 2 crashes, 1 injuryFeb 2025: 1 crashes, 0 injuryApr 2025: 1 crashes, 1 injuryMay 2025: 1 crashes, 0 injuryJul 2025: 3 crashes, 1 injuryOct 2025: 2 crashes, 0 injuryApr 2026: 1 crashes, 1 injuryLimit loweredLimit raised20192020202120222023202420252026Partial change-over months are excluded from the analysis panel
MeasureBefore (60 mo)Lower limit (23 mo)Raised (13 mo)
All crashes47128
Injury crashes1743
Death or serious injury crashes920
Fatal crashes100
Crashes per month0.780.520.62
Crashes per million vehicle-days*3.001.862.17

*Traffic exposure uses this road’s baseline daily traffic trended by the Auckland-wide TMS fixed-site index.

This road’s own model estimates

A segmented Poisson time-series model fitted to this road alone, with terms for the underlying trend and for level changes at the lowering and the raising. Confidence intervals on a single road are wide; the pooled 24-corridor models are the headline evidence.

All crashes · while lower limit applied
91% fewer95% CI -98% to -63% · p = <0.001 · statistically clear
All crashes · after limit raised
69% more95% CI -67% to +774% · p = 0.534 · not statistically clear
Injury crashes · while lower limit applied
95% fewer95% CI -100% to +0% · p = 0.050 · not statistically clear
Injury crashes · after limit raised
26% fewer95% CI -95% to +1032% · p = 0.829 · not statistically clear
Crash records are complete to 30 April 2026 (later months are still filling in), so the after-raising period is still short. Estimates for this single road will firm up as more months accumulate; the full method, sensitivity checks and audit files are on the main report page.