A414 crash in East Hertfordshire on 9 September 2025 at 08:32 involving a BMW 4 Series
A BMW 4 Series and a Honda CBR motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire at 08:32 on Tuesday 9 September 2025. The 22-year-old male rider of the Honda CBR motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Sep 2025
- Tuesday, 08:32
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 4 Series and Honda CBR
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79526, longitude -0.05221, in the SG13 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hertford Kingsmead, East Hertfordshire, SG13 7QE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in East Hertfordshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025411674151
- Council area
- East Hertfordshire
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 414
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- 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, 29 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 2005.
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 2 February 2005
29 m awayRef 20054100A0206
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 22 October 2003
31 m awayRef 20034100A0994
Serious
Car crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 6 January 1980
35 m awayRef 19804141A1009
Serious
Kia Sportage crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 18 November 2018
52 m awayRef 2018410344812
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 15 January 2020
69 m awayRef 2020410932553
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A414 in East Hertfordshire, 22 January 1988
107 m awayRef 19884141A1011
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 4 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Honda CBR
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 649 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda CBR)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2025411674151 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the East Hertfordshire road accident statistics for 2025.