A685 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 19 June 1998 at 12:40 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness at 12:40 on Friday 19 June 1998. The 44-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 27-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Jun 1998
- Friday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.44254, longitude -2.55784, 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
- 1998030001831
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 685
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 6261
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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 September 1994.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 27 September 1994
28 m awayRef 1994030002747
Fatal
Car crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 2 September 1986
28 m awayRef 198603E307300
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 2 December 2003
32 m awayRef 2003030003815
Serious
Car crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 7 April 1984
45 m awayRef 198403G101840
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 9 November 2001
50 m awayRef 2001030003266
Serious
Honda Accord crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 4 June 2007
81 m awayRef 2007030001673
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 1998030001831 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 1998.