Unclassified road crash in Worcester WR5 on 18 December 2025 at 17:30 involving a DS DS3
A bicycle and a DS DS3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Worcester at 17:30 on Thursday 18 December 2025. The 50-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2025
- Thursday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and DS DS3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.18602, longitude -2.17921, in the WR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worcester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leopard Hill, Worcester, WR4 0SX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Worcester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025221685087
- Council area
- Worcester
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Worcestershire
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
- 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
- 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, 26 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 October 2014.
Slight
Mitsubishi Space Star crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 30 October 2014
26 m awayRef 201422C404045
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 13 January 1996
28 m awayRef 199622CU00570
Slight
Car crash on the A422 in Worcester, 19 November 1981
217 m awayRef 1981220311049
Slight
Suzuki GSX 750 crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 22 August 2011
230 m awayRef 201122C103520
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A4440 in Worcester, 20 January 2001
233 m awayRef 200122CG20953
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on an unclassified road in Worcester, 1 May 2004
236 m awayRef 200422CA40903
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: DS DS3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 50, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least 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 2025221685087 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Worcester road accident statistics for 2025.