Serious B5345 crash in Cumberland on 9 June 2003 at 11:15 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B5345 in Cumberland at 11:15 on Monday 9 June 2003. The 42-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Jun 2003
- Monday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.52657, longitude -3.58378, in the CA28 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Egremont North and St Bees, Cumberland, CA28 9SZ area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Copeland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2003030001894
- 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
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 1996.
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 1 December 1996
10 m awayRef 1996030003357
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 9 April 1984
40 m awayRef 198403A102250
Slight
Car crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 4 February 1988
51 m awayRef 198803A100820
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 4 October 1987
57 m awayRef 198703A106320
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 8 July 2014
60 m awayRef 2014030001628
Serious
Car crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 12 March 1980
71 m awayRef 198003A101610
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 42, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2003030001894 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 2003.