A595 crash in Cumberland on 23 September 2007 at 10:20 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on the A595 in Cumberland at 10:20 on Sunday 23 September 2007. The 22-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 2007
- Sunday, 10:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.28278, longitude -3.23185, in the LA18 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
- 2007030002979
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 October 2025.
Serious
Mercedes E Class crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 29 October 2025
10 m awayRef 2025031666444
Slight
DAF Trucks FA 55LF crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 8 August 2003
10 m awayRef 2003030002701
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A595 in Westmorland and Furness, 5 July 2012
28 m awayRef 2012030001440
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the A595 in Westmorland and Furness, 8 August 2003
36 m awayRef 2003030002528
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Westmorland and Furness, 16 January 1982
40 m awayRef 198203J200160
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Westmorland and Furness, 28 October 1984
40 m awayRef 198403J305190
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 2007030002979 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 2007.