A69 crash in Cumberland on 5 November 2008 at 10:22 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the A69 in Cumberland at 10:22 on Wednesday 5 November 2008. The 36-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2008
- Wednesday, 10:22
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.91247, longitude -2.80096, in the CA4 postcode district. 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
- 2008030003060
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 69
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 2007.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A69 in Cumberland, 24 May 2007
14 m awayRef 2007030001480
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the A69 in Cumberland, 24 December 2013
14 m awayRef 2013030002928
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A69 in Cumberland, 7 November 2008
22 m awayRef 2008030003054
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A69 in Cumberland, 11 May 2007
28 m awayRef 2007030001355
Fatal
Car crash on the A69 in Cumberland, 11 June 1982
54 m awayRef 198203D102700
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A69 in Cumberland, 31 July 1997
54 m awayRef 1997030002253
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
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
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 2008030003060 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.