Serious A345 crash in Wiltshire on 9 July 2025 at 20:31 involving a Yamaha MT motorcycle
A Yamaha MT motorcycle and a Kia Picanto were involved in a crash on the A345 in Wiltshire at 20:31 on Wednesday 9 July 2025. The 21-year-old male rider of the Yamaha MT motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Jul 2025
- Wednesday, 20:31
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha MT and Kia Picanto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38068, longitude -1.76369, in the SN8 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wiltshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025541625338
- Council area
- Wiltshire
- Police force
- Wiltshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 345
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 September 2003.
Slight
Lotus Elise crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 6 September 2003
4 m awayRef 200354AP50403
Slight
KTM 125 Duke crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 2 August 2018
21 m awayRef 2018547233318
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 26 February 2006
25 m awayRef 200654AP10006
Serious
Harley-Davidson FLS crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 6 May 2016
28 m awayRef 2016544014516
Serious
Yamaha DT 125 RE crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 21 September 2013
33 m awayRef 2013549011213
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the A345 in Wiltshire, 6 October 2022
44 m awayRef 202254A535322
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha MT
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Kia Picanto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha MT)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 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 2025541625338 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wiltshire road accident statistics for 2025.