A596 crash in Cumberland on 28 July 2025 at 19:40 involving a Citroen C4
A Citroen C4 and two Ford Focus cars were involved in a crash on the A596 in Cumberland at 19:40 on Monday 28 July 2025. The 26-year-old female driver of vehicle 3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jul 2025
- Monday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Citroen C4 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.72024, longitude -3.48183, in the CA15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Maryport. It is one of the crashes that make up the Maryport North, Cumberland, CA15 7AH area accident hotspot. 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
- 2025031621908
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 596
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- B
- Second road number
- 5300
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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 May 1988.
Serious
Lorry crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 21 May 1988
4 m awayRef 198803B203660
Serious
Lorry crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 9 March 1981
6 m awayRef 198103B201600
Slight
Volvo crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 21 March 1994
11 m awayRef 1994030000823
Slight
Volvo crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 8 August 2003
12 m awayRef 2003030002659
Serious
Car crash on the A596 in Cumberland, 3 October 1986
14 m awayRef 198603B206650
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the B5300 in Cumberland, 4 February 1996
17 m awayRef 1996030000359
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Vehicle 3: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025031621908 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 2025.