A595 crash in Cumberland on 11 July 2011 at 15:21 involving a Mercedes C Class
A car and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on the A595 in Cumberland at 15:21 on Monday 11 July 2011. The 39-year-old male driver of the Mercedes C Class was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jul 2011
- Monday, 15:21
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.3826, longitude -3.41623, in the CA19 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
- 2011030001538
- 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
- 30 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 April 2006.
Serious
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 9 April 2006
100 m awayRef 2006030001045
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 7 May 2000
103 m awayRef 2000030001418
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 8 December 1985
106 m awayRef 198503A208340
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 30 May 1980
120 m awayRef 198003A203450
Serious
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 23 December 1997
120 m awayRef 1997039700042
Serious
Lorry crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 22 December 1982
125 m awayRef 198203A206740
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes C Class)
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 2011030001538 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 2011.