A5093 crash in Cumberland on 19 October 2014 at 02:45 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon crashed on the A5093 in Cumberland at 02:45 on Sunday 19 October 2014. All five casualties were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine but windy weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Oct 2014
- Sunday, 02:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Leon
- Casualties
- 5
- 5 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.21227, longitude -3.28772, in the LA18 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
- 2014030002531
- 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
- 5093
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine with 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
- 63%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 37%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 2004.
Slight
Car crash on the A5903 in Cumberland, 7 May 2004
30 m awayRef 2004030003257
Serious
Car crash on the A5093 in Cumberland, 8 July 1985
32 m awayRef 198503J303200
Slight
Citroen C2 crash on the A5093 in Cumberland, 20 October 2015
58 m awayRef 2015030002645
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 30 December 1992
73 m awayRef 199203A004830
Slight
Car crash on the A5093 in Cumberland, 27 September 1981
82 m awayRef 198103J304100
Fatal
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 26 November 1985
82 m awayRef 198503J306190
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 2014030002531 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 2014.