M6 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 23 December 2001 at 12:35 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness at 12:35 on Sunday 23 December 2001. The 26-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2001
- Sunday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.77464, longitude -2.84938, in the CA4 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
- 2001030003635
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 2017.
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 16 September 2017
9 m awayRef 2017030221355
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 21 November 2016
9 m awayRef 2016030132462
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the M6 in Cumberland, 27 June 2003
10 m awayRef 2003030002108
Serious
Leyland crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 13 October 2002
10 m awayRef 2002030003335
Slight
MAN crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 9 October 2003
10 m awayRef 2003030003272
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 26 January 2017
13 m awayRef 2017030150868
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 2001030003635 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 2001.