B5299 crash in Cumberland on 21 October 2014 at 05:45 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 crashed on the B5299 in Cumberland at 05:45 on Tuesday 21 October 2014. The 39-year-old female driver and a 46-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 2014
- Tuesday, 05:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A4
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.87148, longitude -2.96331, in the CA2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Carlisle. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dalston and Burgh, Cumberland, CA2 6QU area accident hotspot. 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
- 2014030002583
- 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
- 5299
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 November 2017.
Slight
Honda NT650V crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 27 November 2017
4 m awayRef 2017030248452
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B5299 in Cumberland, 9 May 1984
22 m awayRef 198403D102360
Serious
Car crash on the B5299 in Cumberland, 2 May 1988
22 m awayRef 198803D202780
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the B5299 in Cumberland, 26 December 2011
50 m awayRef 2011030002824
Slight
Car crash on the B5299 in Cumberland, 6 December 1984
54 m awayRef 198403D207410
Slight
Car crash on the B5299 in Cumberland, 29 November 1999
117 m awayRef 1999030000136
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,986 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A4)
- 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 2014030002583 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.