Serious unclassified road crash in Cumberland CA5 on 11 February 2005 at 12:35 involving a DAF Trucks FA 45LF lorry
A car and a DAF Trucks FA 45LF lorry were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland at 12:35 on Friday 11 February 2005. A 33-year-old male passenger in the car was seriously injured and the 41-year-old male driver of the car and a 24-year-old male passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Feb 2005
- Friday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and DAF Trucks FA 45LF
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.84671, longitude -2.99262, in the CA5 postcode district. The location was in the former Carlisle district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2005030000367
- 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
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 104 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 August 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 3 August 2000
104 m awayRef 2000030002261
Serious
Honda VT500E crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 11 February 1992
171 m awayRef 199203D010340
Slight
Suzuki crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 20 April 2006
186 m awayRef 2006030001016
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 5 July 1992
226 m awayRef 199203D011200
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 25 March 2007
226 m awayRef 2007030000787
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 9 September 1992
288 m awayRef 199203D011770
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering from slip road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: DAF Trucks FA 45LF
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2005030000367 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 2005.