Unclassified road crash in Westmorland and Furness CA17 on 7 June 2015 at 10:40 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Westmorland and Furness at 10:40 on Sunday 7 June 2015. The 65-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Jun 2015
- Sunday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.50392, longitude -2.26851, in the CA17 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
- 2015030001417
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 28%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 72%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 414 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 January 2001.
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Westmorland and Furness, 1 January 2001
414 m awayRef 2001030000123
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Westmorland and Furness, 30 June 2003
802 m awayRef 2003030002038
Slight
Vespa (Douglas) crash on a C road in Westmorland and Furness, 5 February 1999
877 m awayRef 1999030000388
Slight
Mini One crash on a C road in Westmorland and Furness, 10 May 2014
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Serious
Car crash on a C road in Westmorland and Furness, 3 October 1981
1.6 km awayRef 198103E307590
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Westmorland and Furness, 16 July 1988
1.7 km awayRef 198803E306470
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 65, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2015030001417 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 2015.