Unclassified road crash in Cumberland CA15 on 10 July 1981 at 11:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Cumberland at 11:15 on Friday 10 July 1981. The 40-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Jul 1981
- Friday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.71682, longitude -3.50018, in the CA15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maryport. The location was in the former Allerdale district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198103B204680
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 2002.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 8 September 2002
10 m awayRef 2002030002875
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 26 January 2009
30 m awayRef 2009030000170
Serious
Vauxhall crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 21 September 2019
47 m awayRef 2019030883910
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 5 February 2013
61 m awayRef 2013030000254
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Cumberland, 26 May 2008
124 m awayRef 2008030001431
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 11 September 1980
133 m awayRef 198003B205850
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 40, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (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 198103B204680 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.