B3420 crash in Test Valley on 16 September 2025 at 11:21 involving a BMW R Series motorcycle
A BMW R Series motorcycle crashed on the B3420 in Test Valley at 11:21 on Tuesday 16 September 2025. The 54-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Sep 2025
- Tuesday, 11:21
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW R Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.16567, longitude -1.44761, in the SP11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Test Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440419218
- Council area
- Test Valley
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3420
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- 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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 1986.
Slight
Van crash on the B3048 in Test Valley, 11 July 1986
19 m awayRef 1986440NG0114
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B3420 in Test Valley, 26 March 2015
20 m awayRef 2015440102393
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the B3420 in Test Valley, 20 October 2004
21 m awayRef 2004440WA0561
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B3420 in Test Valley, 15 August 1993
29 m awayRef 1993440NG0093
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Test Valley, 22 January 1985
99 m awayRef 1985440NG0015
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 750 crash on the B3420 in Test Valley, 10 October 2010
156 m awayRef 2010440430429
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW R Series
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,254 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Over 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 54, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (BMW R Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Over 100 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 2025440419218 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Test Valley road accident statistics for 2025.