Serious B6542 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 25 August 1984 at 19:19 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B6542 in Westmorland and Furness at 19:19 on Saturday 25 August 1984. The 19-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Aug 1984
- Saturday, 19:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.58436, longitude -2.49463, in the CA16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Appleby-in-Westmorland. The location was in the former Eden district.
Map of where the crash happened in Westmorland and Furness
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198403E306530
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6542
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6542
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 1999.
Slight
Car crash on the B6542 in Westmorland and Furness, 3 December 1999
10 m awayRef 1999030003606
Serious
Van crash on the B6542 in Westmorland and Furness, 6 June 2010
14 m awayRef 2010030001206
Fatal
Car crash on the B6542 in Westmorland and Furness, 9 June 2023
16 m awayRef 2023031316959
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B6542 in Westmorland and Furness, 30 April 1982
20 m awayRef 198203E302460
Slight
Car crash on the B6542 in Westmorland and Furness, 15 October 1986
20 m awayRef 198603E308570
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Westmorland and Furness, 19 June 2016
36 m awayRef 2016030081967
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 19, 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 198403E306530 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 1984.