A595 crash in Cumberland on 27 September 2021 at 04:57 involving a Yamaha NXC motorcycle
A Yamaha NXC motorcycle crashed on the A595 in Cumberland at 04:57 on Monday 27 September 2021. The 45-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet slip road with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Sep 2021
- Monday, 04:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha NXC
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.51939, longitude -3.55743, in the CA24 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Egremont North and St Bees, Cumberland, CA24 3JZ area accident hotspot. 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
- 2021031101070
- 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
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
- Raining 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, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 2004.
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 17 April 2004
16 m awayRef 2004030001132
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 1 December 1980
16 m awayRef 198003A208150
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 7 November 1985
16 m awayRef 198503A207460
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 1 April 2006
16 m awayRef 2006030000904
Serious
Honda CRV crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 12 June 2016
17 m awayRef 2016030089020
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 11 November 2020
19 m awayRef 2020031007064
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha NXC
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha NXC)
- 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 2021031101070 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 2021.