A595 crash in Cumberland on 6 April 2012 at 18:52 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A595 in Cumberland at 18:52 on Friday 6 April 2012. The 42-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 27-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Apr 2012
- Friday, 18:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.78246, longitude -3.20003, 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
- 2012030000855
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 15%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 85%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 August 2025.
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 17 August 2025
24 m awayRef 2025031681841
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 4 November 1980
28 m awayRef 198003D206520
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 25 November 2014
28 m awayRef 2014030002898
Slight
Dennis crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 14 August 2015
36 m awayRef 2015030002461
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 12 January 2002
36 m awayRef 2002030000468
Slight
Iveco Daily crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 23 February 2016
38 m awayRef 2016030047970
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: 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
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, 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 2012030000855 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.