A66 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 23 October 1997 at 09:30 involving a Rover 200 Series
A car and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness at 09:30 on Thursday 23 October 1997. The 40-year-old female driver of the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 1997
- Thursday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.65444, longitude -2.74394, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1997030003326
- 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
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 6
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 slight injury crash on 28 July 1995.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 28 July 1995
At the same spotRef 1995030002167
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 30 August 2008
At the same spotRef 2008030002404
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 23 August 1993
At the same spotRef 199303D002490
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 29 April 2003
At the same spotRef 2003030001434
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 7 June 2024
4 m awayRef 2024031453210
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 29 November 2019
8 m awayRef 2019030905106
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
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 1997030003326 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 1997.