A685 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 26 March 1989 at 17:40 involving a car
A car crashed on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness at 17:40 on Sunday 26 March 1989. A 22-year-old male passenger and a 24-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Mar 1989
- Sunday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.44026, longitude -2.50261, in the CA17 postcode district. The location was in the former Eden district.
Map of where the crash happened in Westmorland and Furness
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198903E303200
- 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
- 60 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 73 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 2016.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 16 December 2016
73 m awayRef 2016030139362
Slight
Car crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 14 January 1984
200 m awayRef 198403E300480
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 14 September 2024
221 m awayRef 2024031491512
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 20 July 2016
437 m awayRef 2016030093146
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 1 April 1991
600 m awayRef 199103D000770
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 12 November 1996
700 m awayRef 1996030003073
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 198903E303200 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 1989.