B203 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 2 February 2018 at 09:00 involving a Citroen C1
A Citroen C1 hit a pedestrian on the B203 in Westmorland and Furness at 09:00 on Friday 2 February 2018. A 50-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Feb 2018
- Friday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen C1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.42619, longitude -2.9623, in the LA22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ambleside. It is one of the crashes that make up the Windermere and Ambleside, Westmorland and Furness, LA22 0BT 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
- 2018030275569
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 203
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- 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, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 March 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A591 in Westmorland and Furness, 8 March 1980
40 m awayRef 198003L100500
Slight
Volvo crash on the A591 in Westmorland and Furness, 3 June 1991
41 m awayRef 199103G002510
Slight
Car crash on the A591 in Westmorland and Furness, 14 October 1982
55 m awayRef 198203L103790
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A591 in Westmorland and Furness, 18 October 1996
55 m awayRef 1996030002795
Slight
Lorry crash on the A591 in Westmorland and Furness, 26 February 2011
64 m awayRef 2011030000353
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A591 in Westmorland and Furness, 2 June 2017
67 m awayRef 2017030188361
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C1
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
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 79 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Citroen C1)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018030275569 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 2018.