Serious A595 crash in Cumberland on 22 October 1981 at 18:27 involving a car
A car crashed on the A595 in Cumberland at 18:27 on Thursday 22 October 1981. A 21-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Oct 1981
- Thursday, 18:27
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.54642, longitude -3.57725, in the CA28 postcode district. The location was in the former Copeland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198103A106970
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 595
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 October 2008.
Slight
Mitsubishi Carisma crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 10 October 2008
22 m awayRef 2008030002757
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 9 September 1997
22 m awayRef 1997030002892
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 17 December 2020
42 m awayRef 2020031008910
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 4 August 1995
45 m awayRef 1995030002378
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 12 August 2000
58 m awayRef 2000030002693
Serious
Mini Countryman crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 24 May 2023
69 m awayRef 2023031311019
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198103A106970 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 1981.