Serious unclassified road crash in Cumberland CA14 on 6 April 2017 at 18:51 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Cumberland at 18:51 on Thursday 6 April 2017. The 58-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Apr 2017
- Thursday, 18:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.64484, longitude -3.5405, in the CA14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St John's and Great Clifton, Cumberland, CA14 4DE area accident hotspot. 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
- 2017030172238
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 July 2020.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 29 July 2020
6 m awayRef 2020030969215
Serious
Car crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 1 December 1987
24 m awayRef 198703B108390
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 3 October 2003
24 m awayRef 2003030003137
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 31 October 2019
25 m awayRef 2019030898502
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 7 January 2001
34 m awayRef 2001030000477
Slight
Car crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 14 June 1988
35 m awayRef 198803B104420
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2017030172238 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 2017.