Serious A4161 crash in Cardiff on 25 March 2025 at 13:36 involving a Ford Transit Custom lorry
A Ford Transit Custom lorry and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A4161 in Cardiff at 13:36 on Tuesday 25 March 2025. The 51-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Mar 2025
- Tuesday, 13:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit Custom and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50014, longitude -3.14081, in the CF23 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penylan, Cardiff, CF23 9AQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025622500226
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4161
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 January 2003.
Slight
Mitsubishi Lancer crash on the A4232 in Cardiff, 20 January 2003
9 m awayRef 2003620076342
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 26 June 2008
21 m awayRef 2008620181127
Slight
Dennis crash on the A4161 in Cardiff, 28 November 2013
21 m awayRef 2013621302193
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 13 October 1992
29 m awayRef 1992620S02290
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 29 January 1997
30 m awayRef 199762L001797
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on an unclassified road in Cardiff, 4 March 1996
30 m awayRef 199662L010996
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Custom
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 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
SeriousMale, aged 51, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2025622500226 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cardiff road accident statistics for 2025.