Serious B6413 crash in Cumberland on 9 May 2017 at 13:29 involving a BMW F 800 motorcycle
A vehicle and a BMW F 800 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B6413 in Cumberland at 13:29 on Tuesday 9 May 2017. The 61-year-old male rider of the BMW F 800 motorcycle 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
- 9 May 2017
- Tuesday, 13:29
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vehicle and BMW F 800
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.9015, longitude -2.71829, in the CA8 postcode district. The location was in the former Carlisle district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017030182615
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6413
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 31 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 2019.
Slight
Volvo S60 crash on the B6413 in Cumberland, 17 June 2019
31 m awayRef 2019030851363
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B6413 in Cumberland, 22 November 1990
340 m awayRef 199003D011910
Slight
Car crash on the B6413 in Cumberland, 29 May 1983
350 m awayRef 198303D102830
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B6413 in Cumberland, 22 July 2019
357 m awayRef 2019030862683
Slight
Volvo 360 crash on the B6413 in Cumberland, 13 February 1999
381 m awayRef 1999030000589
Slight
BMW 2 Series crash on the B6413 in Cumberland, 29 May 2025
400 m awayRef 2025031595865
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1
Vehicle type not recorded
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: BMW F 800
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 61, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (BMW F 800)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least 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 2017030182615 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.