Unclassified road crash in Cumberland LA18 on 20 December 2005 at 16:30 involving a Peugeot 406
A Peugeot 406 and a Rover 100 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland at 16:30 on Tuesday 20 December 2005. The 18-year-old female driver of the Rover 100 Series and an 18-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 406 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2005
- Tuesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 406 and Rover 100 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.2017, longitude -3.28417, in the LA18 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
- 2005030004293
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 June 1986.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Cumberland, 27 June 1986
14 m awayRef 198603J303300
Serious
Scooter crash on a C road in Cumberland, 1 May 1988
32 m awayRef 198803J301960
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 22 March 1985
61 m awayRef 198503J301420
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Cumberland, 24 June 1987
64 m awayRef 198703J302530
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Cumberland, 22 September 1979
72 m awayRef 197903J304160
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Cumberland, 24 May 1986
92 m awayRef 198603J302760
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 406
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,761 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 100 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 100 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 406)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2005030004293 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.