Serious B5300 crash in Cumberland on 7 January 1981 at 08:50 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the B5300 in Cumberland at 08:50 on Wednesday 7 January 1981. The 46-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Jan 1981
- Wednesday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.77258, longitude -3.42948, in the CA15 postcode district. The location was in the former Allerdale district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198103B200140
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5300
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 May 1993.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B5300 in Cumberland, 30 May 1993
40 m awayRef 199303B002440
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B5300 in Cumberland, 29 May 1979
40 m awayRef 197903B203700
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5300 in Cumberland, 11 July 2007
57 m awayRef 2007030002046
Slight
Car crash on the B5300 in Cumberland, 28 March 1988
108 m awayRef 198803B202350
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5300 in Cumberland, 7 May 1994
108 m awayRef 1994030001287
Slight
Ford New Holland crash on the B5300 in Cumberland, 25 October 1996
108 m awayRef 1996030002933
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 46, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 198103B200140 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 1981.