Serious B5320 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 29 August 2008 at 03:49 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the B5320 in Westmorland and Furness at 03:49 on Friday 29 August 2008. The 24-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Aug 2008
- Friday, 03:49
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.6203, longitude -2.80094, in the CA10 postcode district. 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
- 2008030002315
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5320
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 108 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 July 2011.
Slight
Citroen C15 crash on the B5320 in Westmorland and Furness, 26 July 2011
108 m awayRef 2011030002211
Slight
Car crash on the B5320 in Westmorland and Furness, 8 April 1990
117 m awayRef 199003D001760
Serious
Car crash on the B5320 in Westmorland and Furness, 7 May 1979
135 m awayRef 197903E103200
Slight
Car crash on the B5320 in Westmorland and Furness, 12 October 1981
225 m awayRef 198103E107850
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Westmorland and Furness, 3 September 1996
246 m awayRef 1996030002356
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Westmorland and Furness, 30 July 1987
320 m awayRef 198703E106070
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- 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
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 2008030002315 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.