Serious A686 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 13 August 2005 at 23:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness at 23:20 on Saturday 13 August 2005. The 42-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Aug 2005
- Saturday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.73528, longitude -2.5909, in the CA10 postcode district. The location was in the former Eden district.
Map of where the crash happened in Westmorland and Furness
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005030002560
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 686
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 December 1999.
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 11 December 1999
10 m awayRef 1999039900046
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 19 June 2005
10 m awayRef 2005030002013
Serious
Kawasaki ZX crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 28 April 2025
14 m awayRef 2025031583516
Slight
Suzuki GSF 1200 crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 31 March 2012
22 m awayRef 2012030000681
Slight
Car crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 16 November 2014
22 m awayRef 2014030002950
Serious
Yamaha FZS 1000 crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 30 August 2004
30 m awayRef 2004030002726
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 42, motorcyclist (over 500cc), 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 2005030002560 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 2005.