Serious A435 crash in Stratford-on-Avon on 8 November 2025 at 19:39 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza and a car were involved in a crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon at 19:39 on Saturday 8 November 2025. The 19-year-old male driver of the Seat Ibiza and the 47-year-old female driver of the car were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Nov 2025
- Saturday, 19:39
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ibiza and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28588, longitude -1.89105, in the B98 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Matchborough & Woodrow, Redditch, B98 0DT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Stratford-on-Avon
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025231666792
- Council area
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Police force
- Warwickshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 435
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very 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, 21 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 2002.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 15 September 2002
21 m awayRef 2002230291602
Serious
Car crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 8 December 1980
31 m awayRef 1980238001992
Slight
Van crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 15 February 1989
31 m awayRef 1989238900314
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 12 November 1985
31 m awayRef 1985238501895
Slight
Car crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 28 August 1982
31 m awayRef 1982238201377
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the A435 in Stratford-on-Avon, 4 June 2008
35 m awayRef 2008230890730
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2025231666792 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stratford-on-Avon road accident statistics for 2025.