Unclassified road crash in Birmingham B12 on 7 July 2025 at 23:15 involving a Honda WW125 motorcycle
A Honda WW125 motorcycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham at 23:15 on Monday 7 July 2025. The 33-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 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jul 2025
- Monday, 23:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda WW125 and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45428, longitude -1.87761, in the B12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Birmingham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East, Birmingham, B11 4AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Birmingham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201614637
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 October 2006.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 18 October 2006
14 m awayRef 200620E169003
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 7 April 2024
17 m awayRef 2024201430861
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 19 October 2009
18 m awayRef 200920E127003
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 25 September 2018
19 m awayRef 2018200336643
Serious
Audi TT crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 19 May 2025
20 m awayRef 2025201591987
Slight
Mercedes Cla Class crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 1 February 2025
24 m awayRef 2025201550042
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda WW125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 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: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 33, 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 2025201614637 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Birmingham road accident statistics for 2025.