Serious B571 crash in North Northamptonshire on 15 October 2025 at 15:24 involving a Suzuki GSXR motorcycle
A Suzuki GSXR motorcycle and a Sym Jet motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B571 in North Northamptonshire at 15:24 on Wednesday 15 October 2025. The 45-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSXR motorcycle and the 26-year-old female rider of the Sym Jet motorcycle were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Oct 2025
- Wednesday, 15:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki GSXR and Sym Jet
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.31605, longitude -0.63434, in the NN9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Finedon, North Northamptonshire, NN8 1RH area accident hotspot. The location was in the former East Northamptonshire district.
Map of where the crash happened in North Northamptonshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025340NN4252
- Council area
- North Northamptonshire
- Police force
- Northamptonshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 571
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- 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, 8 metres away, was a fatal crash on 18 November 2006.
Fatal
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the B571 in North Northamptonshire, 18 November 2006
8 m awayRef 200634NE08061
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B571 in North Northamptonshire, 1 April 2007
12 m awayRef 200734NE21007
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B571 in North Northamptonshire, 22 December 2014
28 m awayRef 201434NE33474
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B571 in North Northamptonshire, 22 October 1989
34 m awayRef 198934AW01344
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B571 in North Northamptonshire, 2 March 2003
34 m awayRef 200334NW00161
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B571 in North Northamptonshire, 23 October 1990
40 m awayRef 199034AW01148
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GSXR
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Sym Jet
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GSXR)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualty 2: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 26, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Sym Jet)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2025340NN4252 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Northamptonshire road accident statistics for 2025.