A4124 crash in Wolverhampton on 2 January 2025 at 19:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Honda CBR motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4124 in Wolverhampton at 19:30 on Thursday 2 January 2025. The 21-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jan 2025
- Thursday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Honda CBR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.60753, longitude -2.06215, in the WV11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wolverhampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wednesfield South, Wolverhampton, WV11 3EE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wolverhampton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201537843
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4124
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Raining, 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 April 2002.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A4124 in Wolverhampton, 26 April 2002
5 m awayRef 200220G038802
Serious
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 17 February 2006
5 m awayRef 200620G011602
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on the A4124 in Wolverhampton, 25 March 1999
9 m awayRef 199920G024302
Slight
Volkswagen crash on the A4124 in Wolverhampton, 8 September 2009
9 m awayRef 200920G049202
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A4124 in Wolverhampton, 23 July 2020
11 m awayRef 2020200969350
Slight
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A4124 in Wolverhampton, 31 July 2007
19 m awayRef 200720G053802
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Honda CBR
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- 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
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBR)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2025201537843 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wolverhampton road accident statistics for 2025.