Serious B5292 crash in Cumberland on 15 December 2014 at 17:55 involving a Skoda Fabia
A Skoda Fabia crashed on the B5292 in Cumberland at 17:55 on Monday 15 December 2014. The 53-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in snow on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Dec 2014
- Monday, 17:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Fabia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.61972, longitude -3.27717, in the CA13 postcode district. The location was in the former Allerdale district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014030003106
- 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
- 5292
- 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
- Snowing, no 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, 91 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 August 2020.
Slight
Optare Solo crash on the B5292 in Cumberland, 16 August 2020
91 m awayRef 2020030973159
Fatal
Rover 800 Series crash on the B5292 in Cumberland, 16 March 1994
336 m awayRef 1994030000782
Serious
Suzuki GSXR crash on the B5292 in Cumberland, 22 July 2021
501 m awayRef 2021031071653
Slight
Renault 21 crash on the B5292 in Cumberland, 21 June 1994
630 m awayRef 1994030001781
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 29 March 2017
1.0 km awayRef 2017030170476
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the B5292 in Cumberland, 30 August 2014
1.2 km awayRef 2014030002150
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Fabia
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
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Fabia)
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 2014030003106 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.