Unclassified road crash in Wolverhampton WV6 on 6 December 2025 at 21:24 involving an electric motorcycle
An electric motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton at 21:24 on Saturday 6 December 2025. The 18-year-old male rider 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
- 6 Dec 2025
- Saturday, 21:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Electric motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.60844, longitude -2.15085, in the WV6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wolverhampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tettenhall Regis, Wolverhampton, WV6 9NT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Wolverhampton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201682811
- Council area
- Wolverhampton
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
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 10 September 2005.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 10 September 2005
5 m awayRef 200520G081301
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 9 February 2003
35 m awayRef 200320G015301
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 25 January 2008
37 m awayRef 200820G007701
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 6 December 1983
82 m awayRef 19832000G2908
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 17 July 1997
82 m awayRef 19972097G1151
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wolverhampton, 19 December 1988
82 m awayRef 19882000G2122
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Electric motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, e-scooter or powered transporter user, on vehicle 1 (Electric motorcycle)
- 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 2025201682811 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.