Serious unclassified road crash in Westmorland and Furness CA16 on 1 January 2008 at 02:35 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira crashed on an unclassified road in Westmorland and Furness at 02:35 on Tuesday 1 January 2008. The 35-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 1 Jan 2008
- Tuesday, 02:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.58138, longitude -2.48006, in the CA16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Appleby and Brough, Westmorland and Furness, CA16 6WZ area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Eden district.
Map of where the crash happened in Westmorland and Furness
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008030000013
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 4 February 2002.
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on an unclassified road in Westmorland and Furness, 4 February 2002
40 m awayRef 2002030000552
Slight
Massey Ferguson crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 4 August 2014
63 m awayRef 2014030001872
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Westmorland and Furness, 29 December 1980
71 m awayRef 198003E310470
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Westmorland and Furness, 17 December 2013
141 m awayRef 2013030002973
Slight
Lorry crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 9 December 1983
202 m awayRef 198303E309840
Serious
Bedford crash on the B6542 in Westmorland and Furness, 10 June 1995
227 m awayRef 1995030001634
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
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 2008030000013 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Westmorland and Furness road accident statistics for 2008.