A4540 crash in Birmingham on 24 November 2025 at 16:45 involving a Honda WW125 motorcycle
A Honda WW125 motorcycle and a Hyundai Bayon were involved in a crash on the A4540 in Birmingham at 16:45 on Monday 24 November 2025. The 18-year-old male driver of the Hyundai Bayon was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Nov 2025
- Monday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda WW125 and Hyundai Bayon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.45867, longitude -1.87207, 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
- 2025201674035
- Council area
- Birmingham
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4540
- 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
- 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 1998.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 29 December 1998
2 m awayRef 199820E331101
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 28 August 2021
4 m awayRef 2021201119220
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 29 September 2024
7 m awayRef 2024201497817
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 1 January 2022
7 m awayRef 2022201147407
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4540 in Birmingham, 17 September 2012
8 m awayRef 201220T045102
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Birmingham, 8 August 2016
8 m awayRef 2016200096308
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda WW125
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Hyundai Bayon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Hyundai Bayon)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025201674035 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.