A595 crash in Cumberland on 18 December 1997 at 17:10 involving a Ford Fiesta
A car, a Ford Fiesta and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A595 in Cumberland at 17:10 on Thursday 18 December 1997. The 22-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1997
- Thursday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Fiesta and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.58993, longitude -3.54147, in the CA14 postcode district. The location was in the former Copeland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997030003855
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 595
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a fatal crash on 14 January 2016.
Fatal
Suzuki Wagon R+ crash on the B5306 in Cumberland, 14 January 2016
24 m awayRef 2016030065028
Serious
Lorry crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 29 March 1983
28 m awayRef 198303A102230
Slight
Volvo crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 10 May 2005
32 m awayRef 2005030001424
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 7 December 2001
42 m awayRef 2001030003620
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 11 January 2007
45 m awayRef 2007030000354
Slight
Lorry crash on the B5306 in Cumberland, 2 November 2020
50 m awayRef 2020030997294
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, 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 1997030003855 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 1997.