B5301 crash in Cumberland on 28 May 2023 at 18:41 involving a Volkswagen Caddy van
A Volkswagen Caddy van crashed on the B5301 in Cumberland at 18:41 on Sunday 28 May 2023. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 May 2023
- Sunday, 18:41
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Caddy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.85031, longitude -3.36725, 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
- 2023031315182
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5301
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 September 2023.
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 12 September 2023
19 m awayRef 2023031351827
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the B5301 in Cumberland, 26 January 2020
21 m awayRef 2020030924340
Slight
Car crash on the B5301 in Cumberland, 16 November 1985
22 m awayRef 198503B207590
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B5301 in Cumberland, 12 November 2001
23 m awayRef 2001030003289
Serious
Car crash on the B5301 in Cumberland, 24 May 1981
34 m awayRef 198103B203400
Slight
Peugeot 305 crash on the B5301 in Cumberland, 11 October 1993
34 m awayRef 199303B005090
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Caddy
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Caddy)
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 2023031315182 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 2023.