Serious A595 crash in Cumberland on 13 December 1998 at 17:00 involving a bicycle

A vehicle and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A595 in Cumberland at 17:00 on Sunday 13 December 1998. The 48-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured. The location was in the former Copeland district.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 13 Dec 1998; Sunday, 17:00
Vehicles: 2; Other vehicle and bicycle
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1998030003613
Council area: Cumberland
Police force: Cumbria
Highway authority: Cumbria

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 595
Road type: Dual carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph
Trunk road: Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Auto traffic signal
Second road class: A
Second road number: 5094

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 (2)

Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South
Travelling to
North
First point of impact
Nearside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
29 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
Manoeuvre
Turning right
Travelling from
West
Travelling to
South
First point of impact
Offside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
48 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 2: Cyclist
Serious
Male, aged 48, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)

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 1998030003613 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.