A5284 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 17 December 2017 at 10:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A5284 in Westmorland and Furness at 10:45 on Sunday 17 December 2017. An 18-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
- 17 Dec 2017
- Sunday, 10:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.33057, longitude -2.74713, in the LA9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kendal. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kendal Strickland and Fell, Westmorland and Furness, LA9 4UU area accident hotspot. The location was in the former South Lakeland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Westmorland and Furness
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017030250774
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5284
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 September 2001.
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the A6 in Westmorland and Furness, 4 September 2001, ref 2001030002519
6 m awayRef 2001030002519
Slight
Volvo V70 crash on the A6 in Westmorland and Furness, 4 September 2001, ref 2001030002568
6 m awayRef 2001030002568
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A6 in Westmorland and Furness, 3 December 2008
9 m awayRef 2008030003305
Slight
Lorry crash on the A6 in Westmorland and Furness, 8 October 2016
15 m awayRef 2016030117125
Serious
Citroen BX crash on the A6 in Westmorland and Furness, 7 October 1995
16 m awayRef 1995030002896
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A6 in Westmorland and Furness, 18 April 2008
18 m awayRef 2008030001039
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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2017030250774 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Westmorland and Furness road accident statistics for 2017.