Serious B5296 crash in Cumberland on 24 September 2010 at 16:59 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B5296 in Cumberland at 16:59 on Friday 24 September 2010. The 11-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Sep 2010
- Friday, 16:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.6393, longitude -3.54756, in the CA14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Workington. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Michael's, Cumberland, CA14 2NF area accident hotspot. 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
- 2010030002199
- 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
- 5296
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 August 2020.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the B5296 in Cumberland, 8 August 2020
4 m awayRef 2020030980992
Serious
Alexander Dennis crash on the B5296 in Cumberland, 29 November 2025
5 m awayRef 2025031676246
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the B5296 in Cumberland, 28 February 2024
5 m awayRef 2024031415068
Serious
Car crash on the A597 in Cumberland, 8 January 2001
10 m awayRef 2001030000455
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5296 in Cumberland, 18 September 2004
10 m awayRef 2004030003422
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B5296 in Cumberland, 9 October 2016
13 m awayRef 2016030115178
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North 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
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 11, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 2010030002199 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.