B5305 crash in Cumberland on 23 September 2016 at 22:10 involving a Fiat Punto
A vehicle and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the B5305 in Cumberland at 22:10 on Friday 23 September 2016. The 18-year-old male driver of the Fiat Punto was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 2016
- Friday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vehicle and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.79884, longitude -3.06801, in the CA7 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
- 2016030112404
- 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
- 5305
- 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, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 45 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 May 2010.
Serious
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the B5305 in Cumberland, 14 May 2010
45 m awayRef 2010030001098
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B5305 in Cumberland, 12 December 2003
212 m awayRef 2003030004000
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B5305 in Cumberland, 14 July 2002
438 m awayRef 2002030002284
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B5305 in Cumberland, 7 October 2022
449 m awayRef 2022031227779
Fatal
Lorry crash on a C road in Cumberland, 10 May 1989
462 m awayRef 198903D200900
Slight
Car crash on the B5305 in Cumberland, 15 May 1983
474 m awayRef 198303D202520
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1
Vehicle type not recorded
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,368 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
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 2016030112404 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 2016.