A686 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 24 July 1983 at 17:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness at 17:00 on Sunday 24 July 1983. An 18-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jul 1983
- Sunday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.77451, longitude -2.51762, in the CA9 postcode district. The location was in the former Eden district.
Map of where the crash happened in Westmorland and Furness
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198303E105760
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 686
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 September 2009.
Serious
Honda CBR600F crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 20 September 2009
54 m awayRef 2009030002376
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 5 May 2002
61 m awayRef 2002030001513
Serious
Skoda Rapid crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 28 October 2022
98 m awayRef 2022031235785
Fatal
Car crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 6 November 1981
100 m awayRef 198103E108510
Slight
Car crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 6 May 1987
100 m awayRef 198703E103330
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 25 August 1997
200 m awayRef 1997030002583
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 198303E105760 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Westmorland and Furness road accident statistics for 1983.