Morecambe Quad Bike Crash
Muredac Ford
A teenage boy has died after a crash involving a quad bike in the Ribble Valley. Police were called to Extwistle Road near Worsthorne at 12.41am in the early hours of Saturday March 30 after a Polaris Ranger Farm bike left the road and crashed in a field.
Sergeant Martin Wilcock, from Lancashire Constabulary's Road Policing Unit, said: This collision has resulted in a teenager losing his life and my thoughts are with his loved ones at this difficult time.
Having carried out extensive work to establish the circumstances of what led to the collision, we are satisfied that this is no longer a criminal investigation and we are now carrying out enquiries on behalf of the Coroner.
We want to make you aware of the laws about owning and riding motorcycles so that owners/riders can behave responsibly and people who are affected by motorcycle nuisance know how to report it and what we can do about it.
To be on the road legally, a motorcycle must have essential equipment fitted which is in good working order, including lights, brakes, brake-lights, horn, speedometer, good tyres etc. These are required even if the motorcycle is only being pushed.
You must not ride a motorcycle, quad bike or go-ped in a manner which contravenes the road traffic act. If a rider is caught using any type of off-road motorbike or quad bike in a Section 59 area it is against the law and anyone found using one will have their vehicle seized.
Starring Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Christopher Ryan as four students living together during Margaret Thatcher's reign as Prime Minister, for many Brits, it captured the angry voice of the people.
He met Adrian Edmondson, as well as co-writers Ben Elton and Lise Mayer at university. He and Edmondson formed a double act and, along with other comedians, launched their own comedy club, The Comic Strip, in the early 1980s.
He was brought out of the coma after five days and went on to make a recovery. He later made reference to the incident in Bottom live shows, joking: "You must know him, that tosser who fell off the quad bike."
He added: "I would consider surgery if it was a question of job or no job." But in the meantime, Nigel noted, he's trying to exercise and cut out alcohol, which he's been "putting off for years".
His love life, however, has been a little more turbulent. Nigel married Anna Lea in 1989, then got divorced and married Frankie Park in 1999. After they divorced in 2003, he married Roberta Green in 2013, and the two have remained together since.
About 100 pickers, some on foot and others on tractors and quad bikes, gathered along the Morecambe Bay shoreline at Bolton-le-Sands near Hest Bank after Lancashire Police declared the area no longer a crime scene.
Local residents confirmed that Mr Eden had been involved in the seafood industry for a number of years. One neighbour, who lives next door to Mr Eden's large detached house in Irby, in Wirral, said: "It was just after 8pm and a large police van turned up with about 15 officers inside. They went into the house next door and we could see them looking around. They seemed to be taking things away."
We start in Tebay village, and then head up onto the hills following the edge of Tebay Fell to the south with great views over the valley to Borrowdale until we get to the peak of Blease Fell where the vista down the Lune Valley as far as Morecambe Bay makes the climb seem well worthwhile. We then head round the fell, and back over a flattish top via Hare Shaw cairn, Weather Hill, and Waskew Head to cross Tebaygill Beck at a picturesque stone bridge, before returning to Tebay.
Head uphill for no more than 300m and then as the road veers right, take a left turn into Orton Road where on-road parking near to the playground or recycling centre is generally available. For those using satnav, then the postcode is CA10 3TP. If you prefer paper maps then the grid reference is NY361954504546 whilst the what-3-words tag tanks.departure.streetcar pinpoints the parking area.
Incidentally, on the journey here, look to the right as you peel off the M6 where the slip road circles round, and you may spot the confluence of the River Lune and Birk Beck. There is a prominent mound here and this is the remains of a 12th century Mote and Bailey castle called Castle Howe (not to be confused with Catle Howe in Kendal). For more detail click here.
From the parking near the recycling centre, we start be heading beck toward Tebay Village. Ahead of us on the left hand side of the road is an interesting building with a prominent archway. This was once a school, but now operates as a B&B. We need to head up the lane just before the Old School, passing a row of garages as we approach a cattle grid.
Before long we arrive at a farm where the metalled road ends to be replaced with a gravel track which continues up onto the moorland. Although navigation is still simple at this point, we need to be aware that we are now on Open Access Land and that there are a myriad of paths, quad bike tracks, and sheep trods that we might be tempted to follow. We recommend therefore that you use the GPX data which you can download from our website to check you are on the suggested route.
For now, we press on southbound heading toward the edge of Blease Fell some 100m higher than Powson Knott. As we progress, we get a clearer view of Borrowdale over to our right, and even a glimpse of the site of the Roman Fort at Low Borrowbridge, along with the line of the Roman Road which heads south becoming the modern Fairmile Lane, and then Howgill Lane, before finally arriving at Sedbergh. For more information about the Romam Fort, these websites are well worth visiting:
On a clear day, the sea will be glistening at Morecambe Bay, and to the right Barrow (50km away) will be visible, whilst to the left (at 45 km) the two block shapes of Heysham Nuclear Power Station are visible. It may also be possible to see Blackpool Tower slightly further left at 70km.
From here the path continues North, dipping away from the cairn at first and then climbing a little to reach the next intervening peak at Knott. From here we head consistently downhill toward Waskew Head.
Assuming we correctly found the path to Waskew Head, take the track in front of the farm and follow it downhill. From here navigation is fairly foolproof; the track meanders a little but soon arrives at a pretty stone bridge over Tebaygill beck, where we meet a more substantial metalled road which we follow downhill.
Much of the remediation work was undertaken by Cumbria Wildlife Trust, and the aim is to reduce flooding downstream by improving water retention at higher levels, and in doing so stabilising or improving peat coverage. To see more about this, click here.
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