Unclassified road crash in Cumberland CA26 on 2 January 2015 at 15:27 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cumberland at 15:27 on Friday 2 January 2015. A 68-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jan 2015
- Friday, 15:27
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.54362, longitude -3.50015, in the CA26 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cleator Moor East and Frizington, Cumberland, CA26 3SA area accident hotspot. 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
- 2015030000019
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 23%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 77%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 50 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 April 2003.
Slight
Hyundai Amica crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 16 April 2003
50 m awayRef 2003030001341
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 1 February 1990
85 m awayRef 199003A000300
Slight
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 27 June 2023
130 m awayRef 2023031324944
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 28 August 1990
251 m awayRef 199003A002480
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Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 3 November 2020
257 m awayRef 2020031000149
Slight
Ford KA crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 8 October 2014
259 m awayRef 2014030002472
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 68, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 2015030000019 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 2015.