Serious A4136 crash in the Forest of Dean on 17 August 2025 at 12:54 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4136 in the Forest of Dean at 12:54 on Sunday 17 August 2025. The 59-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Aug 2025
- Sunday, 12:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.83351, longitude -2.54466, in the GL17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Forest of Dean
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025531630968
- Council area
- Forest of Dean
- Police force
- Gloucestershire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Gloucestershire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4136
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Very 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 2005.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A4136 in the Forest of Dean, 28 November 2005
6 m awayRef 2005530184582
Serious
LDV 400 Series crash on the A4136 in the Forest of Dean, 1 December 2000
14 m awayRef 2000530AI3783
Slight
Freight Rover crash on the A4136 in the Forest of Dean, 17 May 1996
14 m awayRef 1996530BI0825
Slight
Car crash on the A4136 in the Forest of Dean, 3 December 2004
16 m awayRef 2004530AI4761
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A4136 in the Forest of Dean, 2 July 2002
26 m awayRef 2002530AI2138
Slight
Car crash on the A4136 in Gloucester, 28 March 1981
45 m awayRef 1981530WI0179
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 883 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 59, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 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 2025531630968 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Forest of Dean road accident statistics for 2025.