A595 crash in Cumberland on 20 July 1998 at 14:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the A595 in Cumberland at 14:45 on Monday 20 July 1998. The 21-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jul 1998
- Monday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.49248, longitude -3.53564, in the CA22 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
- 1998030002046
- 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
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 2017.
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 9 June 2017
16 m awayRef 2017030190845
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 16 September 2016
16 m awayRef 2016030107876
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 25 July 2017
16 m awayRef 2017030204980
Serious
Mazda 2 crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 26 November 2018
16 m awayRef 2018030347747
Serious
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 16 July 1989
20 m awayRef 198903A204570
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 30 March 1996
20 m awayRef 1996030000871
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, 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 1998030002046 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.