B5301 crash in Cumberland on 28 August 1994 at 10:30 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the B5301 in Cumberland at 10:30 on Sunday 28 August 1994. The 32-year-old male driver and a 39-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Aug 1994
- Sunday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.78083, longitude -3.3371, in the CA7 postcode district. The location was in the former Allerdale district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994030002507
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5301
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 14 May 1998.
Serious
Car crash on the B5301 in Cumberland, 14 May 1998
At the same spotRef 1998030001449
Slight
Land Rover crash on the B5301 in Cumberland, 15 August 2007
70 m awayRef 2007030002532
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5301 in Cumberland, 26 June 1986
158 m awayRef 198603B204070
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B5301 in Cumberland, 10 July 2025
202 m awayRef 2025031614326
Fatal
Rover Montego crash on the B5301 in Cumberland, 7 May 1995
224 m awayRef 1995030001206
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the B5301 in Cumberland, 18 April 2023
266 m awayRef 2023031298009
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1994030002507 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 1994.