A596 crash in Cumberland on 19 July 2024 at 14:00 involving a Land Rover Freelander
A Land Rover Freelander and a Volkswagen CC were involved in a crash on the A596 in Cumberland at 14:00 on Friday 19 July 2024. A female passenger in the Volkswagen CC was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jul 2024
- Friday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Freelander and Volkswagen CC
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.81543, longitude -3.21143, 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
- 2024031469801
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 596
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- 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, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 1985.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 11 June 1985
18 m awayRef 198503D203420
Serious
BMW 1 Series crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 13 October 2011
41 m awayRef 2011030002198
Slight
Car crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 26 February 1981
49 m awayRef 198103D201070
Fatal
Car crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 22 September 1989
49 m awayRef 198903D202380
Serious
Car crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 5 June 1982
51 m awayRef 198203D202600
Slight
Scania crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 21 March 1992
115 m awayRef 199203B001070
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,179 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen CC
Car
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen CC)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 km
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 2024031469801 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 2024.