Serious unclassified road crash in Winchester PO17 on 7 April 2025 at 14:57 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Winchester at 14:57 on Monday 7 April 2025. The 76-year-old male rider was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Monday, 14:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90107, longitude -1.18606, in the PO17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wickham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Southwick and Wickham, Winchester, PO17 5JW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440151582
- Council area
- Winchester
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 95%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 5%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 2020.
Slight
Peugeot 108 crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 29 March 2020
7 m awayRef 2020440113873
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 17 December 2016
9 m awayRef 2016440474467
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 8 November 2004
14 m awayRef 2004440HB0274
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 28 December 2003
33 m awayRef 2003440HB0364
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 2 August 1984
36 m awayRef 1984440HB0130
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Winchester, 9 April 2001
50 m awayRef 2001440HB0098
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 76, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2025440151582 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Winchester road accident statistics for 2025.