A5271 crash in Cumberland on 18 November 2010 at 17:10 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A5271 in Cumberland at 17:10 on Thursday 18 November 2010. The 51-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 2010
- Thursday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Micra and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.60186, longitude -3.13929, in the CA12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Keswick. It is one of the crashes that make up the Keswick, Cumberland, CA12 5JX 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010030002700
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5271
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 31 December 1979.
Serious
Car crash on the A5271 in Cumberland, 31 December 1979
At the same spotRef 197903E210640
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5271 in Westmorland and Furness, 31 May 1982
At the same spotRef 198203E203660
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 25 November 2025
3 m awayRef 2025031673583
Slight
Mitsubishi Outlander crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 22 September 2025
4 m awayRef 2025031644922
Serious
Ford S-Max crash on the A5271 in Cumberland, 25 May 2013
10 m awayRef 2013030001067
Slight
Car crash on the A5271 in Cumberland, 11 December 2000
14 m awayRef 2000030000337
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,240 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 51, on vehicle 2 (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 2010030002700 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.