Serious unclassified road crash in Babergh IP7 on 25 June 2025 at 17:24 involving an Aprilia SX 125 motorcycle
An Aprilia SX 125 motorcycle and a Kia Sportage were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Babergh at 17:24 on Wednesday 25 June 2025. The 17-year-old male rider of the Aprilia SX 125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Jun 2025
- Wednesday, 17:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Aprilia SX 125 and Kia Sportage
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.06051, longitude 0.96408, in the IP7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Babergh
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025371636621
- Council area
- Babergh
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
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
- 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, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 2015.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Babergh, 23 December 2015
12 m awayRef 201537EA96499
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Babergh, 2 March 1995
254 m awayRef 1995373500910
Slight
Triumph Acclaim crash on a C road in Babergh, 6 January 1998
519 m awayRef 199837B002703
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 16 May 2019
564 m awayRef 2019370840170
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 14 October 2023
582 m awayRef 2023371364202
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A1071 in Babergh, 2 June 2022
589 m awayRef 2022371201238
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Aprilia SX 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Kia Sportage
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Aprilia SX 125)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2025371636621 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Babergh road accident statistics for 2025.