Serious A66 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 13 November 1994 at 04:00 involving a Renault 5
A Renault 5 crashed on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness at 04:00 on Sunday 13 November 1994. The 20-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Nov 1994
- Sunday, 04:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault 5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.52377, longitude -2.22862, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1994030003282
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 66
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 19 November 1996
At the same spotRef 1996030003531
Slight
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85 m awayRef 2002030003266
Serious
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Serious
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Fatal
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Serious
Mercedes crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 2 July 2024
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault 5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault 5)
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 1994030003282 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 1994.