Serious A595 crash in Cumberland on 19 April 2013 at 13:51 involving a Suzuki GS 500 motorcycle
A Suzuki GS 500 motorcycle crashed on the A595 in Cumberland at 13:51 on Friday 19 April 2013. The 45-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
- 19 Apr 2013
- Friday, 13:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki GS 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.25096, longitude -3.30074, 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
- 2013030000807
- 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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 May 2020.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 29 May 2020
8 m awayRef 2020030956233
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 21 September 2008
10 m awayRef 2008030002566
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 28 July 2007
22 m awayRef 2007030002275
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 12 June 2004
50 m awayRef 2004030002636
Slight
Morris Marina crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 25 May 1990
50 m awayRef 199003A001490
Serious
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 10 June 2015
64 m awayRef 2015030001439
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki GS 500
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- 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
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 487 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousFemale, aged 45, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki GS 500)
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 2013030000807 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 2013.