A595(M) crash in Cumberland on 14 December 1998 at 11:40 involving a Land Rover
A Land Rover and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A595(M) in Cumberland at 11:40 on Monday 14 December 1998. A 68-year-old male passenger in the Land Rover 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 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 1998
- Monday, 11:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998030003619
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A(M)
- First road number
- 595
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover
Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Land Rover)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1998030003619 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.