A595 crash in Cumberland on 24 December 2014 at 13:33 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 crashed on the A595 in Cumberland at 13:33 on Wednesday 24 December 2014. The 59-year-old female driver and a 54-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2014
- Wednesday, 13:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.74573, longitude -3.26839, 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
- 2014030003168
- 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
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Mud
- Carriageway hazards
- Mud
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 85 metres away, was a fatal crash on 1 July 2024.
Fatal
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 1 July 2024
85 m awayRef 2024031462023
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 24 September 1992
103 m awayRef 199203B004600
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 22 February 1997
103 m awayRef 1997030001215
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 30 August 1982
103 m awayRef 198203B304860
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 19 October 1988
103 m awayRef 198803B308110
Serious
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 24 December 1985
175 m awayRef 198503D208800
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 54, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2014030003168 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.