Unclassified road crash in Swansea SA5 on 22 December 2025 at 12:45 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic and a Honda XL125V motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Swansea at 12:45 on Monday 22 December 2025. The 19-year-old male rider of the Honda XL125V motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2025
- Monday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Civic and Honda XL125V
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.64263, longitude -3.97458, in the SA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Swansea. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cockett, Swansea, SA5 5DH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Swansea
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025622600005
- Council area
- Swansea
- Police force
- South Wales
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 2007.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 7 July 2007
15 m awayRef 2007620168869
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 27 June 2009
17 m awayRef 2009620191560
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 6 March 2014
20 m awayRef 2014621400442
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 28 December 1982
35 m awayRef 1982620J04670
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 20 November 1995
35 m awayRef 199562J029395
Slight
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in Swansea, 24 June 1996
35 m awayRef 199662J021496
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Honda XL125V
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- 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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda XL125V)
- 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 2025622600005 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Swansea road accident statistics for 2025.