A597 crash in Cumberland on 23 October 2012 at 00:09 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on the A597 in Cumberland at 00:09 on Tuesday 23 October 2012. A 27-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2012
- Tuesday, 00:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.61603, longitude -3.56092, in the CA14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Workington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harrington, Cumberland, CA14 5HS 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
- 2012030002284
- 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
- 597
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A597 in Cumberland, 2 December 1989
10 m awayRef 198903B108110
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5296 in Cumberland, 24 August 1983
14 m awayRef 198303B104890
Serious
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A597 in Cumberland, 2 March 2008
22 m awayRef 2008030000534
Slight
Car crash on the B5296 in Cumberland, 27 January 1983
30 m awayRef 198303B100500
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5296 in Cumberland, 23 May 1979
30 m awayRef 197903B103480
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 28 October 1986
36 m awayRef 198603B107510
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 27, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- In centre of carriageway, not on refuge, island or central reservation
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2012030002284 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.