Unclassified road crash in Cumberland CA14 on 12 July 2013 at 15:50 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and an Optare Solo bus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland at 15:50 on Friday 12 July 2013. The 55-year-old male driver of the Optare Solo bus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jul 2013
- Friday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and Optare Solo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.61168, longitude -3.51476, in the CA14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Distington. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harrington, Cumberland, CA14 4HS 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
- 2013030001482
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 March 2018.
Serious
Peugeot 3008 crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 17 March 2018
20 m awayRef 2018030277789
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 25 August 1998
95 m awayRef 1998030002384
Slight
Leyland DAF 200 crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 31 August 1995
156 m awayRef 1995030003231
Serious
Van crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 13 October 1987
202 m awayRef 198703B107070
Fatal
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 23 February 1980
202 m awayRef 198003B101190
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 26 April 2007
239 m awayRef 2007030001169
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Optare Solo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Optare Solo)
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 2013030001482 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 2013.