A38 crash in Bristol on 18 October 2025 at 10:14 involving a Yamaha GPD motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 2025
- Saturday, 10:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha GPD
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48526, longitude -2.58611, in the BS7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bristol. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bishopston and Ashley Down, Bristol, BS7 9PB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025522600463
- Council area
- Bristol
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 38
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 24 July 2012.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A38 in Bristol, 24 July 2012
1 m awayRef 2012521205227
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A38 in Bristol, 8 November 1980
1 m awayRef 198052CSM2172
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A38 in Bristol, 29 November 2018
8 m awayRef 2018521808047
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A38 in Bristol, 23 July 2019
8 m awayRef 2019521906316
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A38 in Bristol, 6 April 1979
10 m awayRef 197952DLO0374
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A38 in Bristol, 12 August 1986
10 m awayRef 198652CS01442
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha GPD
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Yamaha GPD)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2025522600463 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bristol road accident statistics for 2025.