A47 crash in Fenland on 27 October 2025 at 12:19 involving a BMW F 850 motorcycle
A BMW F 850 motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A47 in Fenland at 12:19 on Monday 27 October 2025. The 30-year-old male rider of the BMW F 850 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Monday, 12:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW F 850 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.6357, longitude 0.1172, in the PE14 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Fenland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025351661703
- Council area
- Fenland
- Police force
- Cambridgeshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cambridgeshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 47
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 35 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 November 1987.
Serious
Car crash on the A47 in Fenland, 22 November 1987
35 m awayRef 1987351356787
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A47 in Fenland, 11 August 2004
38 m awayRef 2004350404504
Slight
Leyland crash on the A47 in Fenland, 12 February 1991
61 m awayRef 1991351044091
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on the A47 in Fenland, 27 August 2001
61 m awayRef 2001350428701
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A47 in Fenland, 26 June 1997
69 m awayRef 1997350315097
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A47 in Fenland, 2 August 1987
75 m awayRef 1987351221487
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW F 850
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 853 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (BMW F 850)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2025351661703 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Fenland road accident statistics for 2025.