Unclassified road crash in Cumberland CA5 on 31 December 2008 at 14:35 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cumberland at 14:35 on Wednesday 31 December 2008. A 15-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2008
- Wednesday, 14:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.84083, longitude -3.0504, in the CA5 postcode district. The location was in the former Allerdale district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2008030003606
- Council area
- Cumberland
- 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
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 146 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 19 November 1980
146 m awayRef 198003D206790
Slight
Lorry crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 9 October 1980
146 m awayRef 198003D206010
Serious
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 20 April 1983
152 m awayRef 198303D202070
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 8 June 1987
152 m awayRef 198703D203560
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 12 August 1985
152 m awayRef 198503D204900
Serious
Lorry crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 15 April 1987
152 m awayRef 198703D202250
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2008030003606 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.