Unclassified road crash in Cumberland CA28 on 27 October 2004 at 21:14 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on an unclassified road in Cumberland at 21:14 on Wednesday 27 October 2004. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Oct 2004
- Wednesday, 21:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.53436, longitude -3.56553, in the CA28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitehaven. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hillcrest and Hensingham, Cumberland, CA28 8RE 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2004030003894
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 6%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 94%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a fatal crash on 17 August 1996.
Fatal
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 17 August 1996
36 m awayRef 1996030002203
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 14 August 1997
40 m awayRef 1997030002456
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 23 June 2003
54 m awayRef 2003030002027
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 27 April 2012
58 m awayRef 2012030000856
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 23 October 2004
72 m awayRef 2004030003786
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 5 September 2006
72 m awayRef 2006030002560
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2004030003894 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.