Serious C road crash in Cumberland CA11 on 30 November 1987 at 15:15 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Cumberland at 15:15 on Monday 30 November 1987. A 17-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 Nov 1987
- Monday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.66616, longitude -2.77982, in the CA11 postcode district. The location was in the former Eden district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198703E110670
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 70 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 February 1992.
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on a C road in Westmorland and Furness, 19 February 1992
70 m awayRef 199203D000420
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Westmorland and Furness, 30 October 2008
130 m awayRef 2008030002930
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Westmorland and Furness, 18 February 1981
224 m awayRef 198103E101110
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Westmorland and Furness, 2 October 1995
224 m awayRef 1995030002869
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Westmorland and Furness, 12 April 2025
226 m awayRef 2025031577290
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Westmorland and Furness, 8 February 2017
271 m awayRef 2017030154753
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198703E110670 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 1987.