A7 crash in Cumberland on 1 November 2007 at 07:48 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A7 in Cumberland at 07:48 on Thursday 1 November 2007. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Nov 2007
- Thursday, 07:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.89883, longitude -2.93574, in the CA3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Cumberland, CA3 8HS 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
- 2007030003307
- 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
- 7
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 7
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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 April 2010.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A7 in Cumberland, 7 April 2010
10 m awayRef 2010030000732
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Honda Civic crash on the A7 in Cumberland, 4 May 2005
22 m awayRef 2005030001366
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the A7 in Cumberland, 29 December 2006
22 m awayRef 2006030003826
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Honda WW125 crash on the A7 in Cumberland, 25 June 2021
23 m awayRef 2021031075028
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Mini Cooper crash on the A7 in Cumberland, 30 December 2025
23 m awayRef 2025031689133
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A7 in Cumberland, 6 August 2007
28 m awayRef 2007030002525
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving roundabout
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2007030003307 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 2007.