Serious A686 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 11 October 2025 at 15:05 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza and an Aprilia Tuono motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness at 15:05 on Saturday 11 October 2025. The 61-year-old male rider of the Aprilia Tuono motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Oct 2025
- Saturday, 15:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Ibiza and Aprilia Tuono
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.81028, longitude -2.44208, in the CA9 postcode district. The location was in the former Eden district.
Map of where the crash happened in Westmorland and Furness
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025031653263
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 686
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- 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, 52 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 June 1998.
Serious
Car crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 21 June 1998
52 m awayRef 1998030001844
Serious
Austin Metro crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 31 May 1990
57 m awayRef 199003D010480
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 11 January 2002
80 m awayRef 2002030000202
Slight
Car crash on the A689 in Westmorland and Furness, 19 July 1988
97 m awayRef 198803D104750
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A686 in Westmorland and Furness, 20 February 2010
107 m awayRef 2010030000360
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A689 in Westmorland and Furness, 12 October 1997
109 m awayRef 1997030003091
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Aprilia Tuono
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,077 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 61, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Aprilia Tuono)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2025031653263 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Westmorland and Furness road accident statistics for 2025.