Serious B5320 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 14 February 1985 at 14:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B5320 in Westmorland and Furness at 14:10 on Thursday 14 February 1985. The 55-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Feb 1985
- Thursday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.64296, longitude -2.75458, in the CA10 postcode district. The location was in the former Eden district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198503E100910
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5320
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 51 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 2013.
Slight
Car crash on the B5320 in Westmorland and Furness, 13 December 2013
51 m awayRef 2013030002814
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on the B5320 in Westmorland and Furness, 5 January 2011
51 m awayRef 2011030000034
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the B5320 in Westmorland and Furness, 12 April 1996
100 m awayRef 1996030000955
Serious
Ford Kuga crash on the B5320 in Westmorland and Furness, 9 October 2020
117 m awayRef 2020030989156
Slight
Car crash on the B5320 in Westmorland and Furness, 1 January 2004
228 m awayRef 2004030000015
Serious
Car crash on the B5320 in Westmorland and Furness, 24 March 2006
313 m awayRef 2006030000742
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 55, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 198503E100910 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 1985.