A69 crash in Cumberland on 16 October 2010 at 09:40 involving a Land Rover Discovery
A Land Rover Discovery, a Vauxhall Vectra and a Renault Laguna were involved in a crash on the A69 in Cumberland at 09:40 on Saturday 16 October 2010. The 59-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Oct 2010
- Saturday, 09:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Land Rover Discovery and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.8993, longitude -2.85996, 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
- 2010030002497
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 15 metres away, was a fatal crash on 14 December 2016.
Fatal
Honda CBF1000A crash on the A69 in Cumberland, 14 December 2016
15 m awayRef 2016030138989
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A69 in Cumberland, 10 December 2009
22 m awayRef 2009030003290
Serious
Car crash on the A69 in Cumberland, 16 October 1983
50 m awayRef 198303D105810
Slight
Car crash on the A69 in Cumberland, 6 June 1998
50 m awayRef 1998030001667
Slight
Car crash on the A69 in Cumberland, 17 July 1988
50 m awayRef 198803D104560
Slight
Car crash on the A69 in Cumberland, 23 December 1979
50 m awayRef 197903D107090
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,720 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 3: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,783 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 2010030002497 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.