A686 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 25 August 1997 at 16:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness at 16:10 on Monday 25 August 1997. The 40-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Aug 1997
- Monday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.7745, longitude -2.52073, 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
- 1997030002583
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 686
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 2002.
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 16 July 2002
10 m awayRef 2002030002265
Slight
Honda CBR600RR crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 2 June 2013
95 m awayRef 2013030001116
Fatal
Car crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 6 November 1981
100 m awayRef 198103E108510
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 3 April 1988
100 m awayRef 198803E102820
Slight
Car crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 6 May 1987
100 m awayRef 198703E103330
Serious
Skoda Rapid crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 28 October 2022
106 m awayRef 2022031235785
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- 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 1997030002583 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 1997.