A685 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 2 November 1985 at 23:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness at 23:00 on Saturday 2 November 1985. A 20-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Nov 1985
- Saturday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.47765, longitude -2.35028, in the CA17 postcode district. The location was in the former Eden district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198503E309180
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 685
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 June 2004.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 6 June 2004
10 m awayRef 2004030001683
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 16 October 2005
10 m awayRef 2005030003338
Serious
Land Rover Discovery crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 19 September 2003
30 m awayRef 2003030003029
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 19 May 2024
32 m awayRef 2024031445011
Fatal
Honda Prelude crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 9 May 1999
50 m awayRef 1999030001356
Slight
Citroen BX crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 16 January 1991
50 m awayRef 199103D000100
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198503E309180 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Westmorland and Furness road accident statistics for 1985.