B5344 crash in Cumberland on 6 December 2009 at 15:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the B5344 in Cumberland at 15:15 on Sunday 6 December 2009. A 76-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Dec 2009
- Sunday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.40285, longitude -3.47347, in the CA20 postcode district. The location was in the former Copeland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2009030003243
- 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
- 5344
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 24%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 76%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 November 2002.
Slight
Car crash on the B5344 in Cumberland, 21 November 2002
10 m awayRef 2002030003771
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 9 July 2000
22 m awayRef 2000030002089
Slight
Car crash on the B5344 in Cumberland, 5 May 1987
54 m awayRef 198703A202930
Slight
Car crash on the B5344 in Cumberland, 21 May 1987
54 m awayRef 198703A203210
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5344 in Cumberland, 3 February 1992
94 m awayRef 199203A000430
Slight
Vauxhall Chevette crash on the B5344 in Cumberland, 17 October 1991
94 m awayRef 199103A003520
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 78 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 76, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 2009030003243 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 2009.