A132 crash in Chelmsford on 1 May 2025 at 09:32 involving a KTM 125 Duke motorcycle
A KTM 125 Duke motorcycle crashed on the A132 in Chelmsford at 09:32 on Thursday 1 May 2025. The 20-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 May 2025
- Thursday, 09:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- KTM 125 Duke
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.62789, longitude 0.55582, in the SS11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rettendon and Runwell, Chelmsford, SS11 7RN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Chelmsford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025421584418
- Council area
- Chelmsford
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 132
- Road type
- Slip road
- 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, 2 metres away, was a fatal crash on 3 September 2019.
Fatal
Kawasaki ZX1000 crash on the A132 in Chelmsford, 3 September 2019
2 m awayRef 2019420873899
Slight
Car crash on the A132 in Chelmsford, 12 April 1987
13 m awayRef 19874200B0212
Serious
Honda crash on the A130 in Chelmsford, 29 September 2006
35 m awayRef 200642I395509
Slight
MG MGF crash on the A130 in Chelmsford, 19 September 2007
58 m awayRef 200742I377809
Slight
Hyundai Sonata crash on the A132 in Chelmsford, 4 November 1998
68 m awayRef 19984200B0547
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A132 in Chelmsford, 10 March 1997
74 m awayRef 19974200C0141
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: KTM 125 Duke
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (KTM 125 Duke)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025421584418 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Chelmsford road accident statistics for 2025.