Unclassified road crash in Cumberland CA22 on 31 October 2007 at 11:45 involving an Urban DZ 125 motorcycle
An Urban DZ 125 motorcycle and a taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland at 11:45 on Wednesday 31 October 2007. The 24-year-old male rider of the Urban DZ 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 2007
- Wednesday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Urban DZ 125 and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.45397, longitude -3.51927, in the CA22 postcode district. The location was in the former Copeland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007030003632
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 September 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Cumberland, 7 September 1982
41 m awayRef 198203A204270
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 20 December 2006
85 m awayRef 2006030003913
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 30 November 2001
102 m awayRef 2001030003528
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 16 May 2003
104 m awayRef 2003030001579
Slight
Rover 45 crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 11 January 2004
117 m awayRef 2004030000186
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on a C road in Cumberland, 23 August 1991
164 m awayRef 199103A002870
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Urban DZ 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,401 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Urban DZ 125)
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 2007030003632 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 2007.