B5289 crash in Cumberland on 9 August 2015 at 06:32 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza crashed on the B5289 in Cumberland at 06:32 on Sunday 9 August 2015. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Aug 2015
- Sunday, 06:32
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.54183, longitude -3.1563, in the CA12 postcode district. The location was in the former Allerdale district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015030001979
- 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
- 5289
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 September 2024.
Slight
Car crash on the B5289 in Cumberland, 14 September 2024
28 m awayRef 2024031491437
Slight
Minibus crash on the B5289 in Cumberland, 1 October 1988
228 m awayRef 198803E209490
Serious
Kawasaki ZX1100 crash on the B5289 in Cumberland, 19 June 1996
355 m awayRef 1996030001644
Slight
Car crash on the B5289 in Cumberland, 31 May 1987
400 m awayRef 198703E204010
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5289 in Cumberland, 6 April 1991
410 m awayRef 199103B001550
Serious
Subaru Impreza crash on the B5304 in Cumberland, 10 April 1998
431 m awayRef 1998030001067
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,422 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
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 2015030001979 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.