A4174 crash in South Gloucestershire on 26 November 2025 at 17:29 involving a Smart Forfour
A Smart Forfour and a Kymco Agility motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire at 17:29 on Wednesday 26 November 2025. The 32-year-old male rider of the Kymco Agility motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Nov 2025
- Wednesday, 17:29
- Vehicles
- 2
- Smart Forfour and Kymco Agility
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44943, longitude -2.49718, in the BS30 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingswood and Fishponds. It is one of the crashes that make up the Longwell Green, South Gloucestershire, BS30 7DA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in South Gloucestershire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025522600604
- Council area
- South Gloucestershire
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4174
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 28 metres away, was a fatal crash on 8 April 2006.
Fatal
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire, 8 April 2006
28 m awayRef 2006520043036
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire, 7 December 2012
62 m awayRef 2012521208205
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire, 6 January 2001
83 m awayRef 2001520004812
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A431 in Bath and North East Somerset, 8 November 1999
104 m awayRef 1999520139211
Slight
Hyundai Atoz crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire, 23 November 2013
108 m awayRef 2013521308650
Slight
Hyundai Coupe crash on the A4174 in South Gloucestershire, 2 February 2011
125 m awayRef 2011521100813
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Smart Forfour
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 898 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Kymco Agility
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Kymco Agility)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least 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 2025522600604 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the South Gloucestershire road accident statistics for 2025.