A595 crash in Cumberland on 1 April 1983 at 01:35 involving a car
A car crashed on the A595 in Cumberland at 01:35 on Friday 1 April 1983. The 25-year-old female 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
- 1 Apr 1983
- Friday, 01:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.76943, longitude -3.22481, 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
- 198303D201700
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 595
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- 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 15 December 1992.
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 15 December 1992
At the same spotRef 199203B006200
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 6 November 2002
76 m awayRef 2002030003618
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 25 April 2012
81 m awayRef 2012030000705
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 20 September 1980
100 m awayRef 198003D205500
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 5 September 1988
141 m awayRef 198803D206090
Slight
Honda crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 2 June 2000
172 m awayRef 2000030001737
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, 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 198303D201700 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 1983.