Serious A595 crash in Cumberland on 12 June 2004 at 18:12 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A595 in Cumberland at 18:12 on Saturday 12 June 2004. The 64-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jun 2004
- Saturday, 18:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.25124, longitude -3.30014, in the LA18 postcode district. The location was in the former Copeland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004030002636
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 595
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 June 2015.
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Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 10 June 2015
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Serious
Kawasaki ZX1100 crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 1 April 2007
36 m awayRef 2007030000861
Serious
Suzuki GS 500 crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 19 April 2013
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Slight
Suzuki crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 21 September 2008
57 m awayRef 2008030002566
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 29 May 2020
57 m awayRef 2020030956233
Serious
BMW R Series crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 4 September 2022
62 m awayRef 2022031215356
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 64, 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 2004030002636 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 2004.