Unclassified road crash in Cardiff CF5 on 6 August 2025 at 23:44 involving a KTM 125 Duke motorcycle
A KTM 125 Duke motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Cardiff at 23:44 on Wednesday 6 August 2025. The 21-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Aug 2025
- Wednesday, 23:44
- Vehicles
- 1
- KTM 125 Duke
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50502, longitude -3.27868, in the CF5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cardiff
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025622500550
- Council area
- Cardiff
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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
- 19%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 81%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: KTM 125 Duke
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (KTM 125 Duke)
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 2025622500550 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.