Unclassified road crash in Cumberland CA18 on 15 December 2018 at 23:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Cumberland at 23:05 on Saturday 15 December 2018. The 23-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2018
- Saturday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.35663, longitude -3.40974, in the CA18 postcode district. The location was in the former Copeland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018030806697
- Council area
- Cumberland
- 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
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 48 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 July 1983.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 26 July 1983
48 m awayRef 198303A204820
Slight
Ford S-Max crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 10 June 2021
454 m awayRef 2021031058840
Serious
Seddon/Atkinson crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 26 October 1996
518 m awayRef 1996030002951
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 20 January 2011
576 m awayRef 2011030000106
Slight
Suzuki GS 500 crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 21 August 2006
598 m awayRef 2006030002476
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 5 November 2010
602 m awayRef 2010030002598
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018030806697 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 2018.