Unclassified road crash in Southampton SO14 on 18 August 2025 at 23:00 involving a Yamaha GPD motorcycle
A Yamaha GPD motorcycle and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Southampton at 23:00 on Monday 18 August 2025. The 22-year-old male rider of the Yamaha GPD motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 2025
- Monday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha GPD and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91082, longitude -1.39953, in the SO14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bargate, Southampton, SO14 7DW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Southampton
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440378299
- Council area
- Southampton
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 January 1994.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A335 in Southampton, 12 January 1994
5 m awayRef 1994440WP0021
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 4 March 1983
5 m awayRef 1983440SC0079
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 19 March 2003
7 m awayRef 2003440SP0160
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A335 in Southampton, 16 September 1996
7 m awayRef 1996440WP0468
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 21 January 1985
7 m awayRef 1985440WP0035
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 21 June 1999
7 m awayRef 1999440SP0298
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha GPD
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 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: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha GPD)
- 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 2025440378299 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southampton road accident statistics for 2025.