B5302 crash in Cumberland on 6 November 2018 at 12:00 involving a Scania lorry
A Scania lorry crashed on the B5302 in Cumberland at 12:00 on Tuesday 6 November 2018. The 61-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Nov 2018
- Tuesday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Scania
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.82919, longitude -3.24008, 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
- 2018030341897
- 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
- 5302
- 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
- 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, 73 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the B5302 in Cumberland, 7 July 1984
73 m awayRef 198403D203730
Slight
Renault 11 crash on the B5302 in Cumberland, 10 May 1990
73 m awayRef 199003B002490
Slight
Car crash on the B5302 in Cumberland, 15 April 1980
73 m awayRef 198003D202000
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B5302 in Cumberland, 4 November 1990
73 m awayRef 199003B005310
Slight
Car crash on the B5302 in Cumberland, 22 September 1988
150 m awayRef 198803D206420
Slight
Bus crash on the B5302 in Cumberland, 27 August 1984
150 m awayRef 198403D204970
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Scania
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bridge (side)
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,740 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, goods vehicle occupant (7.5 tonnes and over), in vehicle 1 (Scania)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018030341897 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.