A689 crash in Cumberland on 20 May 2011 at 16:00 involving a Volvo V40
A Volvo V40 and a car were involved in a crash on the A689 in Cumberland at 16:00 on Friday 20 May 2011. The 43-year-old female driver of the car and a 40-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 May 2011
- Friday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo V40 and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.93051, longitude -2.80351, in the CA6 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
- 2011030001079
- 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
- 689
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2004.
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A689 in Cumberland, 4 June 2004
At the same spotRef 2004030001756
Serious
Ford Fusion crash on the A689 in Cumberland, 2 February 2011
At the same spotRef 2011030000236
Fatal
Kia Picanto crash on the A689 in Cumberland, 18 February 2023
3 m awayRef 2023031277843
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A689 in Cumberland, 9 June 2024
7 m awayRef 2024031453530
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A689 in Cumberland, 10 March 2013
10 m awayRef 2013030000547
Slight
Isuzu Trooper crash on the A689 in Cumberland, 13 October 2000
10 m awayRef 2000030002847
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo V40
Car
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,948 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2011030001079 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 2011.