A597 crash in Cumberland on 12 December 1998 at 16:15 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A597 in Cumberland at 16:15 on Saturday 12 December 1998. A 9-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured. The location was in the former Copeland district.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 12 Dec 1998; Saturday, 16:15
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1998030003604
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: 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

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Slowing or stopping
Travelling from
South
Travelling to
North
First point of impact
Did not impact
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
50 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 2: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Pedestrian movement
Crossing from driver's offside

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 1998030003604 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.