B5307 crash in Cumberland on 16 July 2008 at 16:41 involving a Ford Fusion
A Ford Fusion and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the B5307 in Cumberland at 16:41 on Wednesday 16 July 2008. The 23-year-old female driver of the other vehicle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jul 2008
- Wednesday, 16:41
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fusion and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.89411, longitude -2.95403, in the CA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Carlisle. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Cumberland, CA2 7DE area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Carlisle district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008030002350
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5307
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 20 September 2013
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Slight
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Fatal
Skoda Octavia crash on the B5307 in Cumberland, 6 December 2007
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Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the B5307 in Cumberland, 24 May 2004
At the same spotRef 2004030001686
Slight
Suzuki Splash crash on the B5307 in Cumberland, 6 November 2025
2 m awayRef 2025031671986
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5307 in Cumberland, 5 January 1989
10 m awayRef 198903C100060
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fusion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, other vehicle occupant, in vehicle 2 (Other vehicle)
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 2008030002350 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 2008.