Serious A5272 crash in Stoke-on-Trent on 24 March 2025 at 16:32 involving a Land Rover Range Rover Velar
A Land Rover Range Rover Velar and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A5272 in Stoke-on-Trent at 16:32 on Monday 24 March 2025. The 48-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Monday, 16:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Range Rover Velar and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.99275, longitude -2.10182, in the ST3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stoke-on-Trent. It is one of the crashes that make up the Meir Hay North, Parkhall & Weston Coyney, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 6ES area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025211568787
- Council area
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Police force
- Staffordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5272
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 January 2012.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A5272 in Stoke-on-Trent, 25 January 2012
7 m awayRef 2012212000513
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the B5040 in Stoke-on-Trent, 27 February 1993
10 m awayRef 1993213610141
Slight
Car crash on the B5040 in Stoke-on-Trent, 9 August 1981
10 m awayRef 1981211600301
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A5272 in Stoke-on-Trent, 20 January 2019
15 m awayRef 2019210815954
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the B5040 in Stoke-on-Trent, 29 May 1994
16 m awayRef 1994214213324
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5040 in Stoke-on-Trent, 9 October 1986
17 m awayRef 1986216600399
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Range Rover Velar
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle, engine size unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 48, motorcyclist (engine size unknown), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2025211568787 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stoke-on-Trent road accident statistics for 2025.