A597 crash in Cumberland on 14 December 2006 at 17:00 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto and a car were involved in a crash on the A597 in Cumberland at 17:00 on Thursday 14 December 2006. The 50-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2006
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Punto and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.61017, longitude -3.54149, in the CA14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Harrington, Cumberland, CA14 4JN area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Allerdale district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2006030003890
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 597
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 August 1983.
Serious
Car crash on the B5296 in Cumberland, 20 August 1983
14 m awayRef 198303B104760
Serious
Car crash on the B5296 in Cumberland, 8 August 1983
14 m awayRef 198303B104460
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B5296 in Cumberland, 31 March 1984
14 m awayRef 198403B101870
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 14 April 2007
20 m awayRef 2007030001085
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on the A597 in Cumberland, 14 January 2001
20 m awayRef 2001030000434
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A597 in Cumberland, 25 August 2006
22 m awayRef 2006030003019
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,108 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2006030003890 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.