Serious A686 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 21 June 1998 at 11:43 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness at 11:43 on Sunday 21 June 1998. The 36-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 21 Jun 1998
- Sunday, 11:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.81003, longitude -2.44277, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998030001844
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 45 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 July 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A689 in Westmorland and Furness, 19 July 1988
45 m awayRef 198803D104750
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 31 May 1990
50 m awayRef 199003D010480
Serious
Seat Ibiza crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 11 October 2025
52 m awayRef 2025031653263
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 20 February 2010
70 m awayRef 2010030000360
Slight
Renault Kadjar crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 5 September 2023
86 m awayRef 2023031349267
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A689 in Westmorland and Furness, 15 November 1997
108 m awayRef 1997030003500
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 36, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 1998030001844 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 1998.