B5345 crash in Cumberland on 15 December 2005 at 20:54 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort crashed on the B5345 in Cumberland at 20:54 on Thursday 15 December 2005. The 53-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2005
- Thursday, 20:54
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.51696, longitude -3.58356, in the CA28 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
- 2005030004308
- 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
- 5345
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 August 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 7 August 1985
32 m awayRef 198503A205210
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 15 June 2003
50 m awayRef 2003030001859
Serious
Car crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 17 November 1989
71 m awayRef 198903A106700
Slight
Car crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 2 August 1985
71 m awayRef 198503A205060
Slight
Car crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 17 February 1981
71 m awayRef 198103A201120
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 2 July 1995
114 m awayRef 1995030001807
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 2005030004308 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.