Serious A595 crash in Cumberland on 1 February 2011 at 07:32 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle crashed on the A595 in Cumberland at 07:32 on Tuesday 1 February 2011. The 32-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Feb 2011
- Tuesday, 07:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.45046, longitude -3.5051, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011030000255
- 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
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 10 November 2015.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 10 November 2015
10 m awayRef 2015030002786
Slight
Honda CBF crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 10 November 2025
10 m awayRef 2025031666105
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 17 December 2007
28 m awayRef 2007030004057
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 22 May 2017
36 m awayRef 2017030186358
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 7 August 2005
45 m awayRef 2005030002675
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 18 May 2017
46 m awayRef 2017030186271
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 2011030000255 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 2011.