A689 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 21 December 1996 at 13:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A689 in Westmorland and Furness at 13:20 on Saturday 21 December 1996. The 59-year-old male driver was 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
- 21 Dec 1996
- Saturday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.92963, longitude -2.59296, in the CA8 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
- 1996039600095
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 689
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A689 in Cumberland, 12 October 1984
100 m awayRef 198403D106250
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the A689 in Cumberland, 5 July 1995
200 m awayRef 1995030001794
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A689 in Cumberland, 26 April 1983
224 m awayRef 198303D102150
Slight
Car crash on the A689 in Cumberland, 21 November 1981
224 m awayRef 198103D106550
Slight
HGV crash on the A689 in Cumberland, 1 November 1999
230 m awayRef 1999030003264
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on the A689 in Cumberland, 9 August 2014
250 m awayRef 2014030002098
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 1996039600095 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 1996.