A596 crash in Cumberland on 16 December 2002 at 13:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A596 in Cumberland at 13:00 on Monday 16 December 2002. The 36-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Dec 2002
- Monday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.79066, longitude -3.27679, in the CA7 postcode district. The location was in the former Allerdale district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2002030004136
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 596
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 177 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 2014.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 30 June 2014
177 m awayRef 2014030001507
Slight
Car crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 28 August 1987
233 m awayRef 198703B205950
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 29 December 2008
277 m awayRef 2008030003517
Slight
Volkswagen Bora crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 17 March 2003
361 m awayRef 2003030000941
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 18 June 1991
375 m awayRef 199103B002670
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 2 January 2015
432 m awayRef 2015030000025
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2002030004136 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 2002.