B5294 crash in Cumberland on 29 August 2004 at 16:10 involving a Ford Fiesta
A car and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B5294 in Cumberland at 16:10 on Sunday 29 August 2004. The 20-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was 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
- 29 Aug 2004
- Sunday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.53003, longitude -3.51776, in the CA25 postcode district. The location was in the former Copeland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004030003109
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5294
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 73 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 March 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the B5294 in Cumberland, 16 March 1985
73 m awayRef 198503A201760
Fatal
Car crash on the B5294 in Cumberland, 8 November 1980
73 m awayRef 198003A207610
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5294 in Cumberland, 28 February 1990
76 m awayRef 199003A000570
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B5294 in Cumberland, 16 February 2012
86 m awayRef 2012030000457
Serious
Leyland crash on the B5294 in Cumberland, 18 September 1990
139 m awayRef 199003A002660
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B5294 in Cumberland, 23 February 2025
148 m awayRef 2025031557428
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2004030003109 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 2004.