Unclassified road crash in Dudley DY9 on 16 July 2025 at 13:20 involving a Bentley Continental
A Bentley Continental and a Benelli BN motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Dudley at 13:20 on Wednesday 16 July 2025. The 18-year-old male rider of the Benelli BN motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jul 2025
- Wednesday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bentley Continental and Benelli BN
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.44815, longitude -2.1308, in the DY9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stourbridge. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lye & Stourbridge North, Dudley, DY9 7PD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Dudley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201617387
- Council area
- Dudley
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 July 2017.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 6 July 2017
14 m awayRef 2017200205977
Serious
Suzuki GSF 600 crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 12 February 2011
19 m awayRef 201120J001891
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 26 January 2020
22 m awayRef 2020200936310
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 26 October 2000
25 m awayRef 200020J083302
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 30 October 2023
29 m awayRef 2023201444644
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on an unclassified road in Dudley, 13 March 2016
31 m awayRef 2016200054941
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bentley Continental
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 5,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Benelli BN
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 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 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Benelli BN)
- 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 2025201617387 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dudley road accident statistics for 2025.