A2004 crash in Crawley on 1 March 2025 at 20:25 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Yamaha GPD motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A2004 in Crawley at 20:25 on Saturday 1 March 2025. The 26-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 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 2025
- Saturday, 20:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Yamaha GPD
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12279, longitude -0.17344, in the RH10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crawley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Three Bridges, Crawley, RH10 1RX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Crawley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025471559995
- Council area
- Crawley
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2004
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 August 1991.
Slight
Vauxhall Belmont crash on the A2004 in Crawley, 17 August 1991
4 m awayRef 199147NA10422
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A2004 in Crawley, 7 March 1986
4 m awayRef 198647NA60109
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A2004 in Crawley, 20 July 1988
4 m awayRef 198847NA80413
Slight
Car crash on the A2004 in Crawley, 19 May 1982
4 m awayRef 198247NA20335
Slight
Bus crash on the A2004 in Crawley, 6 November 1982
4 m awayRef 198247NA20887
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 1 December 2005
6 m awayRef 2005470510685
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Yamaha GPD
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha GPD)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2025471559995 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Crawley road accident statistics for 2025.