A5095 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 24 March 2002 at 11:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A5095 in Westmorland and Furness at 11:20 on Sunday 24 March 2002. The 60-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Mar 2002
- Sunday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.42175, longitude -2.96383, in the LA22 postcode district. The location was in the former South Lakeland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Westmorland and Furness
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002030000952
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5095
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 1992.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5075 in Westmorland and Furness, 17 June 1992
28 m awayRef 199203G002930
Fatal
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the A591 in Westmorland and Furness, 7 June 2002
28 m awayRef 2002030001796
Slight
Car crash on the A5075 in Westmorland and Furness, 2 December 1986
30 m awayRef 198603F105590
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the A5095 in Westmorland and Furness, 13 October 2012
41 m awayRef 2012030002255
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A5075 in Westmorland and Furness, 31 October 1997
64 m awayRef 1997030003237
Slight
Car crash on the A5075 in Westmorland and Furness, 16 April 1989
64 m awayRef 198903F101480
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 60, motorcyclist (over 125cc), 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 2002030000952 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 2002.