The A683 is closed both ways due to a traffic incident near the Swan Inn at Middleton, near Sedbergh.
Police and other emergency services were called to what they described as a "serious collision" involving a car and a motorcycle at 4.40pm.
The road was closed while emergency services deal with the inciden
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