A5271 crash in Cumberland on 31 October 2007 at 15:45 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis hit a pedestrian on the A5271 in Cumberland at 15:45 on Wednesday 31 October 2007. An 11-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 2007
- Wednesday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Avensis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.60433, longitude -3.14401, in the CA12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Keswick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Keswick, Cumberland, CA12 5JX 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2007030003521
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5271
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 August 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the A591 in Cumberland, 29 August 1989
28 m awayRef 198903E208660
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 5 August 2004
57 m awayRef 2004030002652
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5289 in Cumberland, 20 February 1990
60 m awayRef 199003B000950
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5271 in Cumberland, 29 August 1983
71 m awayRef 198303E206880
Fatal
Bus crash on the A5271 in Cumberland, 27 June 1988
71 m awayRef 198803E205650
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A5271 in Cumberland, 19 April 2007
85 m awayRef 2007030001163
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Avensis)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2007030003521 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.