Serious unclassified road crash in Wychavon WR10 on 5 June 2025 at 23:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Wychavon at 23:00 on Thursday 5 June 2025. The 16-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Jun 2025
- Thursday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.1681, longitude -2.01513, in the WR10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025221600481
- Council area
- Wychavon
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 18 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 July 1984.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wychavon, 14 July 1984
18 m awayRef 1984220307011
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on an unclassified road in Wychavon, 7 August 1993
173 m awayRef 1993220308007
Serious
Yamaha YZF crash on an unclassified road in Wychavon, 24 May 2025
296 m awayRef 2025221594399
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Wychavon, 6 May 1980
336 m awayRef 1980220305007
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Wychavon, 3 December 1997
465 m awayRef 199722CV07701
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Wychavon, 29 June 1994
468 m awayRef 199422BV05171
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 50 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least 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 2025221600481 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wychavon road accident statistics for 2025.