Serious unclassified road crash in South Gloucestershire BS32 on 23 December 2017 at 15:30 involving a Honda CBF125M motorcycle
A Honda CBF125M motorcycle and a Mercedes A Class were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire at 15:30 on Saturday 23 December 2017. The 18-year-old male rider of the Honda CBF125M motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Dec 2017
- Saturday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda CBF125M and Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54502, longitude -2.58496, in the BS32 postcode district and within the built-up area of Almondsbury.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017521801140
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 76 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 January 1992.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 10 January 1992
76 m awayRef 19925292E8634
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B4055 in South Gloucestershire, 28 July 1998
91 m awayRef 1998520085456
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 11 April 2004
116 m awayRef 2004520046299
Slight
Car crash on the B4055 in South Gloucestershire, 29 June 1983
129 m awayRef 198352DFI1081
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 15 February 2002
157 m awayRef 2002520024635
Slight
KTM 125 Duke crash on an unclassified road in South Gloucestershire, 3 July 2025
168 m awayRef 2025522501947
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda CBF125M
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda CBF125M)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2017521801140 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Gloucestershire road accident statistics for 2017.