Unclassified road crash in Cumberland CA2 on 5 January 1981 at 13:35 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Cumberland at 13:35 on Monday 5 January 1981. The 23-year-old male driver was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jan 1981
- Monday, 13:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.88199, longitude -2.92629, in the CA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Carlisle. The location was in the former Carlisle district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198103C100110
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Road surface defective
- Carriageway hazards
- Poor or defective road surface
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 17 December 2012
54 m awayRef 2012030002883
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 1 May 1987
58 m awayRef 198703C103250
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 23 April 1993
64 m awayRef 199303C001860
Slight
Datsun Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 21 June 1991
67 m awayRef 199103C002670
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 4 December 2019
67 m awayRef 2019030914349
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 6 January 1988
73 m awayRef 198803C100130
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198103C100110 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.