Serious B5289 crash in Cumberland on 21 January 2019 at 20:10 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the B5289 in Cumberland at 20:10 on Monday 21 January 2019. The 27-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Jan 2019
- Monday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.59764, longitude -3.13694, in the CA12 postcode district. 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
- 2019030814660
- 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
- 5289
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very 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, 106 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 August 1981.
Slight
Car crash on the B5289 in Cumberland, 15 August 1981
106 m awayRef 198103E205990
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the B5289 in Cumberland, 8 November 1990
111 m awayRef 199003B005350
Serious
Mercedes B Class crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 19 July 2023
124 m awayRef 2023031331228
Slight
Honda VFR 800 crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 3 September 2023
141 m awayRef 2023031350542
Serious
Yamaha crash on the B5289 in Cumberland, 15 July 2000
153 m awayRef 2000030001997
Slight
Van crash on the B5289 in Cumberland, 21 March 2009
168 m awayRef 2009030000663
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2019030814660 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 2019.