Unclassified road crash in Cumberland CA2 on 28 December 2006 at 15:07 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A car and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland at 15:07 on Thursday 28 December 2006. The 17-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 2006
- Thursday, 15:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.89101, longitude -2.97001, in the CA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Carlisle. It is one of the crashes that make up the Yewdale, Cumberland, CA2 6SB area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Carlisle district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006030003811
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 March 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 29 March 1985
14 m awayRef 198503C102390
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 21 March 1995
22 m awayRef 1995030000891
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 26 January 1998
28 m awayRef 1998030000319
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 7 August 1994
30 m awayRef 1994030002078
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 23 August 1988
36 m awayRef 198803C106950
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 22 October 1995
41 m awayRef 1995030003232
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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 age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,043 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 2006030003811 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.