Serious A414 crash in Epping Forest on 1 July 2025 at 18:10 involving a KTM RC 125 motorcycle
A KTM RC 125 motorcycle crashed on the A414 in Epping Forest at 18:10 on Tuesday 1 July 2025. The 18-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jul 2025
- Tuesday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- KTM RC 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.70964, longitude 0.30448, in the CM5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Epping Forest
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025421610220
- Council area
- Epping Forest
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 414
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately 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, 31 metres away, was a fatal crash on 13 May 2005.
Fatal
Suzuki GSF 1200 crash on the A414 in Epping Forest, 13 May 2005
31 m awayRef 200542G032905
Serious
Ducati Hypermotard crash on the A414 in Epping Forest, 5 April 2025
46 m awayRef 2025421574151
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A414 in Epping Forest, 17 April 2011
77 m awayRef 201142I111404
Fatal
Honda CRV crash on the A414 in Epping Forest, 26 October 2021
96 m awayRef 2021421102773
Serious
Hyundai Accent crash on the A414 in Chelmsford, 9 October 1998
99 m awayRef 19984200C0681
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the A414 in Epping Forest, 7 August 2007
113 m awayRef 200742I314208
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: KTM RC 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (KTM RC 125)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2025421610220 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Epping Forest road accident statistics for 2025.