Unclassified road crash in Cumberland on 21 December 1998 at 10:00 involving a Volkswagen Jetta

A Volkswagen Jetta hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Cumberland at 10:00 on Monday 21 December 1998. An 81-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured. The location was in the former Allerdale district.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 21 Dec 1998; Monday, 10:00
Vehicles: 1; Volkswagen Jetta
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1998030000015
Council area: Cumberland
Police force: Cumbria
Highway authority: Cumbria

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph
Trunk road: Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class: B
Second road number: 596

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

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Jetta
Car
Manoeuvre
Turning right
Travelling from
South East
Travelling to
South West
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
35 years
Engine capacity
1,588 cc
Fuel or propulsion
Diesel
Vehicle age
11 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 2: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 81, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Jetta)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from driver's nearside

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 1998030000015 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 1998.