A5086 crash in Cumberland on 17 November 2006 at 08:30 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A5086 in Cumberland at 08:30 on Friday 17 November 2006. The 41-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 2006
- Friday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.49489, longitude -3.53129, in the CA22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Egremont North and St Bees, Cumberland, CA22 2TD 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
- 2006030003521
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5086
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 2008.
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the A5086 in Cumberland, 29 November 2008
At the same spotRef 2008030003259
Slight
Car crash on the A5086 in Cumberland, 19 December 1984
10 m awayRef 198403A208320
Serious
Car crash on the A5086 in Cumberland, 19 May 1980
10 m awayRef 198003A103190
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A5086 in Cumberland, 23 July 1991
14 m awayRef 199103A002360
Slight
Ford crash on the A5086 in Cumberland, 27 June 1990
22 m awayRef 199003A001790
Slight
Car crash on the A5086 in Cumberland, 25 July 1985
22 m awayRef 198503A104890
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- 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
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
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 2006030003521 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.