B5345 crash in Cumberland on 22 August 2020 at 02:20 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the B5345 in Cumberland at 02:20 on Saturday 22 August 2020. The 32-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 2020
- Saturday, 02:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.48205, longitude -3.58312, in the CA27 postcode district. 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
- 2020030983936
- 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
- 5345
- 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
- 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, 66 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 April 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 10 April 1983
66 m awayRef 198303A202340
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 28 May 2021
206 m awayRef 2021031063831
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 7 April 1994
210 m awayRef 1994030000940
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 22 May 2003
226 m awayRef 2003030001664
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B5345 in Cumberland, 2 August 2017
274 m awayRef 2017030212951
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 22 September 2016
274 m awayRef 2016030109431
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
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 2020030983936 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 2020.