A5087 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 13 April 1999 at 19:30 involving a Honda motorcycle
A bicycle and a Honda motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A5087 in Westmorland and Furness at 19:30 on Tuesday 13 April 1999. The 39-year-old male cyclist 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
- 13 Apr 1999
- Tuesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.09441, longitude -3.14828, in the LA13 postcode district. The location was in the former Barrow-in-Furness district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1999030000993
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5087
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 May 2024.
Slight
Volvo S40 crash on the A5087 in Westmorland and Furness, 9 May 2024
9 m awayRef 2024031440887
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A5087 in Westmorland and Furness, 27 May 1992
10 m awayRef 199203H002750
Fatal
Car crash on the A5087 in Westmorland and Furness, 24 October 1986
10 m awayRef 198603J205430
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5087 in Westmorland and Furness, 3 April 1999
10 m awayRef 1999030000888
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A5087 in Westmorland and Furness, 2 April 2007
10 m awayRef 2007030000895
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5087 in Westmorland and Furness, 16 April 2003
36 m awayRef 2003030001261
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Honda
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 39, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 1999030000993 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 1999.