Serious B3038 crash in Southampton on 17 December 2025 at 05:37 involving a Lexmoto ZSB motorcycle
A Lexmoto ZSB motorcycle crashed on the B3038 in Southampton at 05:37 on Wednesday 17 December 2025. The 37-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on an icy roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Dec 2025
- Wednesday, 05:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lexmoto ZSB
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.90595, longitude -1.38937, in the SO14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southampton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bevois, Southampton, SO14 0PQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025440566757
- Council area
- Southampton
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3038
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A3038 in Southampton, 17 June 1989
8 m awayRef 1989440SC0232
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on the B3038 in Southampton, 27 December 2003
8 m awayRef 2003440SC0761
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 30 November 1987
8 m awayRef 1987440SC0445
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the B3038 in Southampton, 13 April 2013
9 m awayRef 2013440132510
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3028 in Southampton, 29 December 2001
11 m awayRef 2001440SC0676
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Southampton, 8 July 1983
20 m awayRef 1983440SC0277
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto ZSB
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 37, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto ZSB)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 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 2025440566757 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.