Skip to main content
CrashStats

B5345 crash in Cumberland on 29 December 2001 at 05:30 involving a Ford Escort

A Ford Escort and a car were involved in a crash on the B5345 in Cumberland at 05:30 on Saturday 29 December 2001. The 35-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort and the 24-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
29 Dec 2001
Saturday, 05:30
Vehicles
2
Ford Escort and car
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.54222, longitude -3.58979, in the CA28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitehaven. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bransty, Cumberland, CA28 7NG area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Copeland district.

Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland

Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.

  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2001030000243
Council area
Cumberland
Police force
Cumbria
Highway authority
Cumbria

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
5345
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
Dark, street lights lit
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 2017.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Ford Escort

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    35 years
    Engine capacity
    1,753 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    7 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    24 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)

  • Casualty 2: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2001030000243 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 2001.