Serious A591 crash in Cumberland on 24 December 1998 at 12:45 involving an MG Metro
An MG Metro and a Toyota Corolla were involved in a crash on the A591 in Cumberland at 12:45 on Thursday 24 December 1998. The 28-year-old female driver of the Toyota Corolla was seriously injured and the 27-year-old female driver of the MG Metro and a 34-year-old male passenger in the Toyota Corolla were slightly injured. The location was in the former Allerdale district.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Dec 1998
- Thursday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- MG Metro and Toyota Corolla
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1998030003691
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 591
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: MG Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Corolla
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,295 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MG Metro)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Corolla)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Corolla)
- 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 1998030003691 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.