Serious A595 crash in Cumberland on 30 May 2015 at 15:04 involving a Citroen Berlingo
A Citroen Berlingo and a Mini One were involved in a crash on the A595 in Cumberland at 15:04 on Saturday 30 May 2015. The 24-year-old male driver of the Citroen Berlingo was seriously injured and the 75-year-old male driver of the Mini One was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 30 May 2015
- Saturday, 15:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Berlingo and Mini One
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.44495, longitude -3.49192, in the CA22 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
- 2015030001344
- 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
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 54 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 2004.
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 3 March 2004
54 m awayRef 2004030000686
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 4 November 1993
54 m awayRef 199303A003480
Serious
Austin Morris Mini crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 6 December 1992
58 m awayRef 199203A004440
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 15 August 1991
58 m awayRef 199103A002650
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 23 March 1998
58 m awayRef 1998030000867
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 28 August 1986
73 m awayRef 198603A204950
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Berlingo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Mini One
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 75 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Berlingo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 75, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini One)
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 2015030001344 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 2015.