A6071 crash in Cumberland on 22 January 2017 at 11:40 involving a Lexmoto Aspire 125 motorcycle
A car and a Lexmoto Aspire 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A6071 in Cumberland at 11:40 on Sunday 22 January 2017. The male rider of the Lexmoto Aspire 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 60 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Jan 2017
- Sunday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Lexmoto Aspire 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.993, longitude -3.04815, in the DG16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Annandale East and Eskdale, Dumfries and Galloway, DG16 5AJ area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Carlisle district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017030149816
- 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
- 6071
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Motorway
- Second road number
- 6
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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 25 January 2016.
Fatal
Volvo crash on the M6 in Cumberland, 25 January 2016
At the same spotRef 2016030048436
Fatal
Renault Trucks crash on the A74(M) in Cumberland, 2 October 2025
13 m awayRef 2025031649259
Slight
Volvo crash on the A6071 in Cumberland, 31 December 2015
15 m awayRef 2015030003201
Slight
DAF Trucks FT 85CF crash on the A74(M) in Cumberland, 2 April 2004
17 m awayRef 2004030001037
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A6071 in Cumberland, 14 December 2003
17 m awayRef 2003030003996
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A74 in Cumberland, 31 May 2001
21 m awayRef 2001030001676
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Lexmoto Aspire 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 123 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Lexmoto Aspire 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2017030149816 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 2017.