Serious B4073 crash in Gloucester on 19 July 2025 at 19:02 involving a Vauxhall Meriva
A motorcycle and a Vauxhall Meriva were involved in a crash on the B4073 in Gloucester at 19:02 on Saturday 19 July 2025. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jul 2025
- Saturday, 19:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Vauxhall Meriva
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.85461, longitude -2.22975, in the GL1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Gloucester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Coney Hill, Gloucester, GL4 6PD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025531620253
- Council area
- Gloucester
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4073
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 1993.
Slight
Morris Mini crash on the B4073 in Gloucester, 19 June 1993
3 m awayRef 1993530BI1077
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B4073 in Gloucester, 14 June 1993
3 m awayRef 1993530BI1044
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B4073 in Gloucester, 2 May 2011
3 m awayRef 2011530204917
Slight
Mazda 6 crash on the B4073 in Gloucester, 21 January 2009
12 m awayRef 2009530195911
Slight
Car crash on the B4073 in Gloucester, 31 March 1988
16 m awayRef 1988530BI0199
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the B4073 in Gloucester, 8 October 2009
16 m awayRef 2009530199497
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2025531620253 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gloucester road accident statistics for 2025.