Serious A591 crash in Cumberland on 24 October 2018 at 19:31 involving a Mercedes Cla Class
A Mercedes Cla Class hit a pedestrian on the A591 in Cumberland at 19:31 on Wednesday 24 October 2018. A 39-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Oct 2018
- Wednesday, 19:31
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes Cla Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.57946, longitude -3.08745, in the CA12 postcode district. The location was in the former Allerdale district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018030346840
- 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
- 591
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 44 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 May 1991.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A591 in Cumberland, 11 May 1991
44 m awayRef 199103B002000
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on the A591 in Cumberland, 26 December 2011
62 m awayRef 2011030002816
Slight
BMW 4 Series crash on the A591 in Cumberland, 4 October 2025
62 m awayRef 2025031650403
Slight
Nissan Cabstar crash on the A591 in Cumberland, 15 March 2011
85 m awayRef 2011030000588
Slight
Leyland crash on the A591 in Cumberland, 3 March 1996
85 m awayRef 1996030000619
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A591 in Cumberland, 18 April 1981
147 m awayRef 198103E202510
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes Cla Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 39, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes Cla Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018030346840 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 2018.