Serious A5093 crash in Cumberland on 21 November 2014 at 22:58 involving a Kia Picanto
A Kia Picanto crashed on the A5093 in Cumberland at 22:58 on Friday 21 November 2014. The 19-year-old male driver, a 17-year-old female passenger and an 18-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Nov 2014
- Friday, 22:58
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kia Picanto
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.25506, longitude -3.26234, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014030002852
- 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
- 40 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 41 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 26 September 1989.
Serious
Lorry crash on the A5093 in Cumberland, 26 September 1989
41 m awayRef 198903J304990
Slight
Car crash on the A5093 in Cumberland, 14 July 1988
41 m awayRef 198803J303350
Slight
Lorry crash on the A5093 in Cumberland, 13 February 1995
61 m awayRef 1995030000472
Slight
Colt Sapporo crash on the A5093 in Cumberland, 2 April 1992
61 m awayRef 199203A001160
Serious
Car crash on the A5093 in Cumberland, 30 May 1987
61 m awayRef 198703J302100
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A5093 in Cumberland, 8 September 2015
81 m awayRef 2015030002288
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kia Picanto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Picanto)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Picanto)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Picanto)
- 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 2014030002852 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.