B5345 crash in Cumberland on 11 March 2012 at 01:15 involving a Hyundai Coupe
A Hyundai Coupe crashed on the B5345 in Cumberland at 01:15 on Sunday 11 March 2012. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Mar 2012
- Sunday, 01:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Hyundai Coupe
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.4773, longitude -3.57107, in the CA22 postcode district. The location was in the former Copeland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012030000540
- 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
- 5345
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 2008.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 23 August 2008
32 m awayRef 2008030002237
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 2 December 2002
40 m awayRef 2002030003949
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 12 October 1989
40 m awayRef 198903A206200
Slight
Car crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 15 January 2007
41 m awayRef 2007030000177
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 31 July 2001
58 m awayRef 2001030002149
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 3 March 2006
63 m awayRef 2006030000592
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai Coupe
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai Coupe)
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 2012030000540 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 2012.