Serious A595 crash in Cumberland on 29 March 2009 at 12:13 involving a Yamaha YZF R6 motorcycle
A Yamaha YZF R6 motorcycle crashed on the A595 in Cumberland at 12:13 on Sunday 29 March 2009. The 41-year-old female 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
- 29 Mar 2009
- Sunday, 12:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha YZF R6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.25522, longitude -3.27202, 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
- 2009030000756
- 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, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 5 October 2001.
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 5 October 2001
22 m awayRef 2001030002958
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 25 October 1982
50 m awayRef 198203J303910
Slight
Volkswagen crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 16 March 2024
68 m awayRef 2024031422599
Slight
Lorry crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 29 September 1987
81 m awayRef 198703J304320
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 11 May 2009
112 m awayRef 2009030001222
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 25 May 2008
193 m awayRef 2008030001437
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha YZF R6
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 41, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha YZF R6)
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 2009030000756 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 2009.