A126 crash in Thurrock on 13 July 2025 at 14:06 involving a Honda WW125 motorcycle
A Honda WW125 motorcycle and a Volvo XC90 were involved in a crash on the A126 in Thurrock at 14:06 on Sunday 13 July 2025. The 15-year-old male rider of the Honda WW125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jul 2025
- Sunday, 14:06
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda WW125 and Volvo XC90
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46712, longitude 0.36406, in the RM18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tilbury. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tilbury St Chads, Thurrock, RM18 8LD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Thurrock
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025421615482
- Council area
- Thurrock
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 126
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 1991.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A128 in Thurrock, 21 December 1991
5 m awayRef 19914200F0991
Slight
Daimler Double Six crash on the A126 in Thurrock, 11 March 1995
5 m awayRef 19954200F0114
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on the A126 in Thurrock, 27 May 1994
5 m awayRef 19944200F0375
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A126 in Thurrock, 6 August 2003
5 m awayRef 20034200F0375
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A126 in Thurrock, 20 June 1999
5 m awayRef 19994200F0305
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A126 in Thurrock, 13 July 1991
10 m awayRef 19914200F0521
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda WW125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 15 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Volvo XC90
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 15, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda WW125)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2025421615482 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Thurrock road accident statistics for 2025.