A675 crash in Chorley on 19 October 2025 at 11:00 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A675 in Chorley at 11:00 on Sunday 19 October 2025. The 58-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and a 61-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Oct 2025
- Sunday, 11:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.73817, longitude -2.60328, in the PR5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Chorley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025041659597
- Council area
- Chorley
- Police force
- Lancashire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Lancashire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 675
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 1979.
Slight
Van crash on the A675 in Chorley, 3 December 1979
6 m awayRef 1979040JH1896
Slight
Car crash on the A675 in Chorley, 7 November 1991
7 m awayRef 1991040DG2986
Slight
Kia Rio crash on the A675 in Chorley, 9 May 2016
15 m awayRef 201604SC16089
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A675 in Chorley, 6 December 2017
15 m awayRef 201704SC17305
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A675 in South Ribble, 12 September 1996
15 m awayRef 199604M032196
Slight
Rover SD1 crash on the A675 in South Ribble, 3 March 1997
15 m awayRef 199704M009097
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 79 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 58, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 61, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2025041659597 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chorley road accident statistics for 2025.