A595 crash in Cumberland on 14 September 2006 at 00:30 involving a Rover Sterling
A Rover Sterling crashed on the A595 in Cumberland at 00:30 on Thursday 14 September 2006. The 60-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Sep 2006
- Thursday, 00:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Sterling
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.3622, longitude -3.39998, in the CA18 postcode district. The location was in the former Copeland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006030002672
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 595
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 May 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 8 May 1979
10 m awayRef 197903A202920
Serious
DAF Trucks FA 45LF crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 28 February 2004
22 m awayRef 2004030000647
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 24 May 1987
30 m awayRef 198703A203430
Slight
Van crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 8 May 1979
30 m awayRef 197903A202910
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 29 May 2019
60 m awayRef 2019030844913
Serious
Volvo S40 crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 23 February 2005
140 m awayRef 2005030000625
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover Sterling
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,675 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Sterling)
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 2006030002672 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 2006.