A595 crash in Cumberland on 21 October 1981 at 14:15 involving a motorcycle
A vehicle and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A595 in Cumberland at 14:15 on Wednesday 21 October 1981. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 1981
- Wednesday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Other vehicle and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.4121, longitude -3.43602, in the CA20 postcode district. The location was in the former Copeland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198103A206990
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 595
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 December 1990.
Serious
Austin Allegro crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 16 December 1990
100 m awayRef 199003A003780
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 23 March 1991
112 m awayRef 199103A001020
Slight
Volvo 740 crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 8 January 1997
141 m awayRef 1997030000193
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 12 June 1991
201 m awayRef 199103A001840
Serious
Volvo XC90 crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 8 March 2025
250 m awayRef 2025031562777
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 22 February 2022
263 m awayRef 2022031146704
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist, 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 198103A206990 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cumberland road accident statistics for 1981.