A5094 crash in Cumberland on 17 May 2018 at 10:24 involving a Lexus NX300
A Lexus NX300 and a Volkswagen UP were involved in a crash on the A5094 in Cumberland at 10:24 on Thursday 17 May 2018. The 19-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen UP was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 May 2018
- Thursday, 10:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lexus NX300 and Volkswagen UP
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.54914, longitude -3.5868, in the CA28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Whitehaven. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bransty, Cumberland, CA28 7NG area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Copeland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018030296582
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5094
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 16 August 2020.
Slight
Hyundai Tucson crash on the A5094 in Cumberland, 16 August 2020
1 m awayRef 2020030984275
Slight
Toyota Landcruiser crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 5 September 2000
6 m awayRef 2000030002733
Serious
Taxi crash on the A5094 in Cumberland, 3 May 2025
6 m awayRef 2025031585224
Slight
Audi A5 crash on the A5094 in Cumberland, 18 December 2021
8 m awayRef 2021031140980
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A5094 in Cumberland, 18 September 2020
8 m awayRef 2020030982858
Slight
Car crash on the A5094 in Cumberland, 11 April 1985
10 m awayRef 198503A102440
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lexus NX300
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen UP
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen UP)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018030296582 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 2018.