A13 crash in Southend-on-Sea on 5 September 2025 at 08:25 involving a Kawasaki ZX motorcycle
A Kawasaki ZX motorcycle and a Porsche Cayenne were involved in a crash on the A13 in Southend-on-Sea at 08:25 on Friday 5 September 2025. The 62-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ZX 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
- 5 Sep 2025
- Friday, 08:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki ZX and Porsche Cayenne
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.54711, longitude 0.667, in the SS9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southend-on-Sea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leigh, Southend-on-Sea, SS9 1QZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025421637650
- Council area
- Southend-on-Sea
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 13
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 23 October 2023.
Slight
Yamaha MT crash on the A13 in Southend-on-Sea, 23 October 2023
1 m awayRef 2023421366188
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A13 in Southend-on-Sea, 4 November 1999
6 m awayRef 19994200H0626
Slight
Sao Penza crash on the A13 in Southend-on-Sea, 22 May 1998
6 m awayRef 19984200H0274
Slight
Vauxhall Omega crash on the A13 in Southend-on-Sea, 24 April 2001
6 m awayRef 20014200H0199
Slight
Fiat Cinquecento crash on the A13 in Southend-on-Sea, 23 September 2004
6 m awayRef 20044200H0426
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the A13 in Southend-on-Sea, 28 November 2001
6 m awayRef 20014200H0635
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ZX
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,043 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Porsche Cayenne
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 62, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ZX)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2025421637650 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southend-on-Sea road accident statistics for 2025.