Unclassified road crash in Cumberland on 4 December 1998 at 11:11 involving a Kia Sportage
A Kia Sportage and another vehicle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland at 11:11 on Friday 4 December 1998. The 50-year-old female driver of the Kia Sportage was slightly injured. The location was in the former Copeland district.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 1998
- Friday, 11:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kia Sportage and vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998030003562
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kia Sportage
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2
Vehicle type not recorded
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Sportage)
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 1998030003562 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.