A134 crash in Colchester on 11 September 2025 at 19:58 involving a Tesla Model 3
A Tesla Model 3 and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A134 in Colchester at 19:58 on Thursday 11 September 2025. The 20-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Sep 2025
- Thursday, 19:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Tesla Model 3 and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.91644, longitude 0.89093, in the CO4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Colchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mile End, Colchester, CO4 5LE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Colchester
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025421640483
- Council area
- Colchester
- Police force
- Essex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Essex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 134
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 134
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 slight injury crash on 13 May 2020.
Slight
Nissan Pulsar crash on the A134 in Colchester, 13 May 2020
2 m awayRef 2020420951039
Serious
Peugeot 107 crash on the A134 in Colchester, 19 August 2020
2 m awayRef 2020420974253
Serious
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A134 in Colchester, 16 November 2021
2 m awayRef 2021421112960
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A134 in Colchester, 11 March 2022
3 m awayRef 2022421152555
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on an unclassified road in Colchester, 8 September 2017
3 m awayRef 2017420217664
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A134 in Colchester, 11 August 2010
10 m awayRef 201042I265008
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Tesla Model 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,477 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 20, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2025421640483 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Colchester road accident statistics for 2025.