Serious A595 crash in Cumberland on 3 April 1981 at 16:01 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A595 in Cumberland at 16:01 on Friday 3 April 1981. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Apr 1981
- Friday, 16:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.48125, longitude -3.52874, in the CA22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Egremont. 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
- 198103A202290
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 595
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 January 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 25 January 1985
At the same spotRef 198503A200460
Serious
Renault Megane crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 7 December 2022
6 m awayRef 2022031251993
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 14 June 1985
10 m awayRef 198503A203860
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 17 February 2012
10 m awayRef 2012030000376
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 12 December 2025
11 m awayRef 2025031682292
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 4 December 1981
14 m awayRef 198103A208030
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198103A202290 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.