Unclassified road crash in Cumberland CA28 on 25 November 2007 at 01:30 involving a Peugeot Expert taxi
A Peugeot Expert taxi crashed on an unclassified road in Cumberland at 01:30 on Sunday 25 November 2007. A 20-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Nov 2007
- Sunday, 01:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot Expert
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.54619, longitude -3.58917, in the CA28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitehaven. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bransty, Cumberland, CA28 7NG 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
- 2007030003944
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 April 2000.
Slight
Toyota Hiace crash on a C road in Cumberland, 6 April 2000
14 m awayRef 2000030001086
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 26 February 2002
20 m awayRef 2002030000841
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Cumberland, 11 June 1989
22 m awayRef 198903A103600
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Cumberland, 12 August 1995
30 m awayRef 1995030002339
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on a C road in Cumberland, 21 June 1992
36 m awayRef 199203A002280
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on a C road in Cumberland, 24 March 1997
45 m awayRef 1997030000960
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Expert
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Expert)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2007030003944 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.