Serious A6010 crash in Manchester on 27 December 2025 at 03:15 involving a Mercedes E Class
A bicycle and a Mercedes E Class were involved in a crash on the A6010 in Manchester at 03:15 on Saturday 27 December 2025. The 20-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Dec 2025
- Saturday, 03:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.45544, longitude -2.20426, in the M13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Manchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rusholme, Manchester, M13 0WS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Manchester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025061688569
- Council area
- Manchester
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6010
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 June 2000.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A6010 in Manchester, 2 June 2000
4 m awayRef 200006C010965
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A6010 in Manchester, 24 November 2005
6 m awayRef 200506B039200
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A6010 in Manchester, 5 September 2003
10 m awayRef 200306C023601
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A6010 in Manchester, 28 April 1997
10 m awayRef 199706C024097
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A6010 in Manchester, 2 September 2014
18 m awayRef 201406E091104
Slight
Citroen 2CV crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 30 November 1997
30 m awayRef 199706C211597
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- 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
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 20, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2025061688569 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Manchester road accident statistics for 2025.