Unclassified road crash in Cumberland on 27 December 1998 at 11:10 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA and a Lada Samara were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland at 11:10 on Sunday 27 December 1998. A female passenger in the Ford KA was slightly injured. The location was in the former Allerdale 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
- 27 Dec 1998
- Sunday, 11:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford KA and Lada Samara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998030003650
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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 (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Lada Samara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,288 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
- 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 1998030003650 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.