B6542 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 28 January 1987 at 16:00 involving a taxi
A taxi hit a pedestrian on the B6542 in Westmorland and Furness at 16:00 on Wednesday 28 January 1987. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jan 1987
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.58418, longitude -2.49386, in the CA16 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
- 198703E300640
- 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
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 January 2005.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B6542 in Westmorland and Furness, 29 January 2005
14 m awayRef 2005030000178
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Westmorland and Furness, 19 June 2016
26 m awayRef 2016030081967
Slight
Derbi GPR 50 crash on the B6542 in Westmorland and Furness, 11 September 2008
32 m awayRef 2008030002511
Slight
Car crash on the B6542 in Westmorland and Furness, 15 October 1986
36 m awayRef 198603E308570
Fatal
Car crash on the B6542 in Westmorland and Furness, 9 June 2023
38 m awayRef 2023031316959
Serious
Van crash on the B6542 in Westmorland and Furness, 6 June 2010
50 m awayRef 2010030001206
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Taxi)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198703E300640 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 1987.