Serious A406 crash in Barnet on 20 December 2025 at 17:44 involving a Suzuki GSXR motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR motorcycle and a Vauxhall Mokka were involved in a crash on the A406 in Barnet at 17:44 on Saturday 20 December 2025. The 21-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSXR motorcycle was seriously injured and a 21-year-old male passenger on the Suzuki GSXR motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Dec 2025
- Saturday, 17:44
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki GSXR and Vauxhall Mokka
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.60626, longitude -0.15331, in the N10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Friern Barnet, Barnet, N11 3DW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Barnet
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010616660
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 406
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 July 2001.
Slight
Yamaha FZS 600 crash on the A406 in Barnet, 9 July 2001
9 m awayRef 200101SX00851
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the A406 in Barnet, 11 December 2011
9 m awayRef 201101SX21118
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A406 in Barnet, 30 November 2020
16 m awayRef 2020010281945
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the A406 in Barnet, 10 July 2014
19 m awayRef 201401SX20596
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A406 in Barnet, 11 October 1985
19 m awayRef 198501SG00559
Fatal
Car crash on the A406 in Barnet, 1 May 1985
19 m awayRef 198501SG00223
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Mokka
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR)
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 2025010616660 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 2025.