A5086 crash in Cumberland on 3 December 1981 at 16:20 involving a lorry
A lorry and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A5086 in Cumberland at 16:20 on Thursday 3 December 1981. The 30-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 1981
- Thursday, 16:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.50348, longitude -3.52617, in the CA23 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
- 198103A207980
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5086
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 May 2013.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A5086 in Cumberland, 5 May 2013
At the same spotRef 2013030000918
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5086 in Cumberland, 28 June 2007
42 m awayRef 2007030001919
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A5086 in Cumberland, 16 August 2016
50 m awayRef 2016030098411
Slight
Car crash on the A5086 in Cumberland, 18 April 2005
57 m awayRef 2005030001171
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Vauxhall Omega crash on the A5086 in Cumberland, 23 September 2002
57 m awayRef 2002030003168
Slight
Honda CB crash on the A5086 in Cumberland, 11 June 2025
63 m awayRef 2025031601609
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 30, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 198103A207980 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.