A595 crash in Cumberland on 25 April 2012 at 16:13 involving a Skoda Octavia
A Skoda Octavia crashed on the A595 in Cumberland at 16:13 on Wednesday 25 April 2012. A 61-year-old female passenger and a 21-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a snow-covered single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Apr 2012
- Wednesday, 16:13
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Octavia
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.76908, longitude -3.22591, in the CA7 postcode district. 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
- 2012030000705
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 17%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 83%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 November 2002.
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 6 November 2002
10 m awayRef 2002030003618
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 20 September 1980
50 m awayRef 198003D205500
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 5 September 1988
67 m awayRef 198803D206090
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 1 April 1983
81 m awayRef 198303D201700
Slight
Rover Maestro crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 15 December 1992
81 m awayRef 199203B006200
Slight
Honda crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 2 June 2000
104 m awayRef 2000030001737
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Octavia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Submerged in water
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Octavia)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Octavia)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2012030000705 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 2012.