B5295 crash in Cumberland on 22 November 2007 at 15:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B5295 in Cumberland at 15:30 on Thursday 22 November 2007. A 13-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Nov 2007
- Thursday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.54016, longitude -3.56189, in the CA28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitehaven. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hillcrest and Hensingham, Cumberland, CA28 8RE 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
- 2007030003929
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5295
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 1997.
Slight
Volvo crash on the B5295 in Cumberland, 23 March 1997
At the same spotRef 1997030000951
Slight
Volvo 245 crash on the B5295 in Cumberland, 30 July 1993
10 m awayRef 199303A002390
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B5295 in Cumberland, 8 March 1982
14 m awayRef 198203A101200
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B5295 in Cumberland, 23 November 2006
20 m awayRef 2006030003566
Slight
Car crash on the B5295 in Cumberland, 7 February 1991
22 m awayRef 199103A000380
Slight
Van crash on the B5295 in Cumberland, 11 June 1984
22 m awayRef 198403A103680
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 2007030003929 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.