A595 crash in Cumberland on 9 March 2017 at 11:45 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon, a Fiat Punto and a Land Rover Freelander were involved in a crash on the A595 in Cumberland at 11:45 on Thursday 9 March 2017. The 29-year-old male driver of the Fiat Punto and a 23-year-old female passenger in the Fiat Punto were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Mar 2017
- Thursday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 3
- Seat Leon and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.51453, longitude -3.55257, in the CA24 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Egremont North and St Bees, Cumberland, CA24 3LB area accident hotspot. The location was in the former Copeland district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017030163018
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 595
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 2024.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Cumberland, 18 November 2024
8 m awayRef 2024031517731
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 23 December 2009
9 m awayRef 2009030003457
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 26 September 2013
10 m awayRef 2013030002106
Slight
Car crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 3 May 1991
10 m awayRef 199103A001520
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 1 July 2011
10 m awayRef 2011030001927
Slight
Volkswagen crash on the A595 in Cumberland, 1 August 2014
10 m awayRef 2014030002045
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
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 2017030163018 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 2017.