Serious unclassified road crash in Guildford GU5 on 13 December 2025 at 11:15 involving a Tesla Model Y
A bicycle and a Tesla Model Y were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Guildford at 11:15 on Saturday 13 December 2025. The 49-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Dec 2025
- Saturday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Tesla Model Y
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.22023, longitude -0.48682, in the GU5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tillingbourne, Guildford, GU5 9BW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025451691670
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 25 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 1993.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A248 in Guildford, 2 February 1993
25 m awayRef 199345WF00052
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A248 in Guildford, 10 March 1992
31 m awayRef 199245WO00056
Serious
Mercedes crash on the A248 in Guildford, 6 June 1991
31 m awayRef 199145WO00143
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A248 in Guildford, 19 August 1999
34 m awayRef 199945WG00467
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A248 in Guildford, 28 July 1996
34 m awayRef 199645WG00404
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A248 in Guildford, 8 June 1997
34 m awayRef 199745WG00352
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Tesla Model Y
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 49, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less 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 2025451691670 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Guildford road accident statistics for 2025.