Serious A591 crash in Cumberland on 28 November 1988 at 21:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A591 in Cumberland at 21:10 on Monday 28 November 1988. The 30-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Nov 1988
- Monday, 21:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.6877, longitude -3.21924, in the CA12 postcode district. The location was in the former Allerdale district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198803E211640
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 591
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 December 1995.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A591 in Cumberland, 26 December 1995
At the same spotRef 1995030003669
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A591 in Cumberland, 5 February 2017
63 m awayRef 2017030153030
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A591 in Cumberland, 30 March 2024
76 m awayRef 2024031426308
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A591 in Cumberland, 5 June 1990
100 m awayRef 199003B002850
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on the A591 in Cumberland, 6 December 2016
117 m awayRef 2016030136471
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A591 in Cumberland, 17 February 1990
120 m awayRef 199003B000870
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 30, 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 198803E211640 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 1988.