Serious A685 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 8 September 1989 at 11:11 involving a car
A car crashed on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness at 11:11 on Friday 8 September 1989. The 68-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Sep 1989
- Friday, 11:11
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.43929, longitude -2.51955, in the CA10 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198903E309000
- 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 9 April 1999.
Serious
Hyundai Pony crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 9 April 1999
At the same spotRef 1999030001023
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 12 April 1997
100 m awayRef 1997030001127
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 1 March 1994
100 m awayRef 1994030000590
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 29 May 2000
170 m awayRef 2000030001553
Slight
Car crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 13 December 1985
300 m awayRef 198503E310960
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 10 September 2004
301 m awayRef 2004030002894
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198903E309000 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.