C road crash in Southwark SE16 on 12 October 2025 at 23:13 involving a Honda WW125 motorcycle
A Honda WW125 motorcycle and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on a C road in Southwark at 23:13 on Sunday 12 October 2025. The 17-year-old male rider of the Honda WW125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2025
- Sunday, 23:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda WW125 and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4928, longitude -0.06518, in the SE16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Bermondsey, Southwark, SE16 2FS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Southwark
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010603350
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 2 April 2025.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Southwark, 2 April 2025
1 m awayRef 2025010567614
Slight
Audi A3 crash on a C road in Southwark, 7 July 2019
2 m awayRef 2019010192116
Serious
Nissan E-NV200 crash on a C road in Southwark, 23 August 2018
3 m awayRef 2018010128606
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Southwark, 10 April 1999
3 m awayRef 199901MD00139
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Southwark, 18 February 1999
3 m awayRef 199901MD00073
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Southwark, 12 October 2005
3 m awayRef 200501MM71091
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda WW125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda WW125)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025010603350 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southwark road accident statistics for 2025.