Unclassified road crash in Westmorland and Furness CA11 on 16 March 1994 at 13:30 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Westmorland and Furness at 13:30 on Wednesday 16 March 1994. A 76-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Mar 1994
- Wednesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.66185, longitude -2.75183, in the CA11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Penrith. The location was in the former Eden district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994030000734
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Snowing with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 76, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1994030000734 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Westmorland and Furness road accident statistics for 1994.