Serious B5302 crash in Cumberland on 23 August 2010 at 17:50 involving a Rover 75
A Rover 75 crashed on the B5302 in Cumberland at 17:50 on Monday 23 August 2010. The 67-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Aug 2010
- Monday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 75
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.83129, longitude -3.22436, in the CA7 postcode district. The location was in the former Allerdale district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010030001967
- 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
- 5302
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 August 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the B5302 in Cumberland, 26 August 1989
41 m awayRef 198903D202150
Slight
Car crash on the B5302 in Cumberland, 4 May 1979
54 m awayRef 197903D202080
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5302 in Cumberland, 10 October 1981
54 m awayRef 198103D205890
Slight
Car crash on the B5302 in Cumberland, 14 November 1981
54 m awayRef 198103D206230
Slight
Car crash on the B5302 in Cumberland, 25 November 1979
54 m awayRef 197903D206410
Slight
Car crash on the B5302 in Cumberland, 10 March 2005
81 m awayRef 2005030000846
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 75
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside 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
- 67 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,951 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 67, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 75)
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 2010030001967 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 2010.