Serious A595 crash in Cumberland on 20 February 2014 at 13:45 involving a Vauxhall Combo
A car and a Vauxhall Combo were involved in a crash on the A595 in Cumberland at 13:45 on Thursday 20 February 2014. The 52-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Feb 2014
- Thursday, 13:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Combo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.25764, longitude -3.26411, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014030000415
- 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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 5093
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 21 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 23 March 2017.
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 23 March 2017
21 m awayRef 2017030169608
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 6 December 1993
32 m awayRef 199303A003910
Slight
MG TF crash on the A5093 in Cumberland, 10 December 2010
32 m awayRef 2010030002982
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 20 March 2017
37 m awayRef 2017030167829
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Westmorland and Furness, 2 October 1984
50 m awayRef 198403J304560
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 21 January 1993
50 m awayRef 199303A000210
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Combo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2014030000415 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 2014.