Serious B5302 crash in Cumberland on 17 August 2006 at 18:07 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B5302 in Cumberland at 18:07 on Thursday 17 August 2006. The 10-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Aug 2006
- Thursday, 18:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.82526, longitude -3.16052, in the CA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wigton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wigton, Cumberland, CA7 9EB area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Allerdale district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006030002565
- 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
- 5302
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the B5302 in Cumberland, 9 June 2015
At the same spotRef 2015030001418
Slight
Car crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 8 February 1983
At the same spotRef 198303D200800
Serious
Car crash on the B5302 in Cumberland, 8 November 2020
5 m awayRef 2020031005062
Slight
Car crash on the B5302 in Cumberland, 7 October 2013
10 m awayRef 2013030002213
Serious
Audi A3 crash on the B5302 in Cumberland, 7 January 2023
12 m awayRef 2023031260609
Serious
Car crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 3 October 1979
14 m awayRef 197903D205240
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 10, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2006030002565 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 2006.