B5344 crash in Cumberland on 30 November 1998 at 08:15 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B5344 in Cumberland at 08:15 on Monday 30 November 1998. The 35-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured. The location was in the former Copeland district.
It happened after dark on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Nov 1998
- Monday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998030003515
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5344
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,272 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 35, 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 1998030003515 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cumberland road accident statistics for 1998.