A595 crash in Cumberland on 17 January 2023 at 09:27 involving a BMW F 800 motorcycle
A BMW F 800 motorcycle crashed on the A595 in Cumberland at 09:27 on Tuesday 17 January 2023. The 56-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jan 2023
- Tuesday, 09:27
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW F 800
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.52393, longitude -3.56303, in the CA28 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
- 2023031265698
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 595
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Frost or ice
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, 17 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 22 April 1981.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 22 April 1981
17 m awayRef 198103A102750
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 20 August 1994
18 m awayRef 1994030002290
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 3 December 2017
109 m awayRef 2017030249331
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 18 September 2012
116 m awayRef 2012030002053
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 45 crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 27 September 1999
122 m awayRef 1999030003276
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 23 August 1983
135 m awayRef 198303A105510
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW F 800
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 56, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (BMW F 800)
- 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 2023031265698 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 2023.