A5094 crash in Cumberland on 10 August 2015 at 00:33 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Suzuki Swift were involved in a crash on the A5094 in Cumberland at 00:33 on Monday 10 August 2015. The 47-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Aug 2015
- Monday, 00:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Suzuki Swift
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.54067, longitude -3.57656, in the CA28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitehaven. 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
- 2015030001975
- 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
- 5094
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 January 2022.
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the A5094 in Cumberland, 13 January 2022
22 m awayRef 2022031146546
Serious
Car crash on the A5094 in Cumberland, 11 February 1982
22 m awayRef 198203A100790
Slight
Car crash on the A5094 in Cumberland, 14 April 1987
32 m awayRef 198703A102450
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A5094 in Cumberland, 9 June 2020
37 m awayRef 2020030956683
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the A5094 in Cumberland, 24 October 2021
38 m awayRef 2021031102010
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A5094 in Cumberland, 24 September 2005
50 m awayRef 2005030003062
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
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
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 66 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,328 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 2015030001975 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.