A66 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 29 November 2012 at 19:20 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A Kawasaki motorcycle crashed on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness at 19:20 on Thursday 29 November 2012. The 29-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Nov 2012
- Thursday, 19:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.5343, longitude -2.37334, in the CA16 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012030002620
- 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
- 66
- 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 July 2023.
Slight
Scania crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 3 July 2023
9 m awayRef 2023031328051
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 21 December 1990
14 m awayRef 199003D004790
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 5 August 2006
28 m awayRef 2006030002232
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 28 November 1990
30 m awayRef 199003D004550
Slight
Van crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 29 January 2012
94 m awayRef 2012030000169
Serious
Massey Ferguson crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 6 November 1998
134 m awayRef 1998030003276
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki
Motorcycle over 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 and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 805 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 29, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)
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 2012030002620 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 2012.