A597 crash in Cumberland on 30 November 1998 at 18:55 involving a Rover 100 Series
A Rover 100 Series and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on the A597 in Cumberland at 18:55 on Monday 30 November 1998. The 17-year-old male driver of the Ford Sierra was slightly injured. The location was in the former Copeland 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
- 30 Nov 1998
- Monday, 18:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 100 Series and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998030003522
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 597
- 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
- Unclassified
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 100 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,120 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Sierra)
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 1998030003522 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.