Serious B5299 crash in Cumberland on 29 July 2000 at 17:25 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A car and a Suzuki motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B5299 in Cumberland at 17:25 on Saturday 29 July 2000. A 35-year-old female passenger on the Suzuki motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Jul 2000
- Saturday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.7652, longitude -3.2275, in the CA7 postcode district. The location was in the former Allerdale district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2000030002216
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5299
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 132 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 October 2000.
Slight
Citroen 2CV crash on the B5299 in Cumberland, 11 October 2000
132 m awayRef 2000030003044
Slight
Car crash on the B5299 in Cumberland, 28 September 1980
244 m awayRef 198003D105790
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 20 January 1987
278 m awayRef 198703D200500
Serious
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 14 February 1987
278 m awayRef 198703D200870
Serious
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 8 August 2017
298 m awayRef 2017030209488
Slight
John Deere 6100 Series crash on the B5299 in Cumberland, 7 January 2020
310 m awayRef 2020030918228
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,157 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 35, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki)
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 2000030002216 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 2000.