A340 crash in Basingstoke and Deane on 15 January 2025 at 07:58 involving a Honda CB motorcycle
A Honda CB motorcycle crashed on the A340 in Basingstoke and Deane at 07:58 on Wednesday 15 January 2025. The 26-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jan 2025
- Wednesday, 07:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CB
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33453, longitude -1.12789, in the RG26 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440020015
- Council area
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 340
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 November 1998.
Serious
Peugeot 306 crash on the A340 in Basingstoke and Deane, 11 November 1998
13 m awayRef 1998440BB1309
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A340 in Basingstoke and Deane, 8 December 1998
38 m awayRef 1998440BB1487
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A30 in Basingstoke and Deane, 19 January 2022
55 m awayRef 2022440025022
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A340 in Basingstoke and Deane, 20 September 1994
57 m awayRef 1994440BB1018
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A340 in Basingstoke and Deane, 12 September 2025
59 m awayRef 2025440414074
Slight
Volvo 245 crash on the A340 in Basingstoke and Deane, 23 April 1993
61 m awayRef 1993440BB0477
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CB
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 471 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CB)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025440020015 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Basingstoke and Deane road accident statistics for 2025.