A6 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 25 March 2002 at 23:11 involving a Skoda Felicia
A Skoda Felicia crashed on the A6 in Westmorland and Furness at 23:11 on Monday 25 March 2002. The 33-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Mar 2002
- Monday, 23:11
- Vehicles
- 1
- Skoda Felicia
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.68483, longitude -2.77336, in the CA11 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
- 2002030000962
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 6
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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 6 September 2012.
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A6 in Westmorland and Furness, 6 September 2012
At the same spotRef 2012030001983
Serious
Kia Picanto crash on the A6 in Westmorland and Furness, 15 March 2017
11 m awayRef 2017030164647
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A6 in Westmorland and Furness, 28 April 2010
14 m awayRef 2010030000886
Slight
Car crash on the A6 in Westmorland and Furness, 17 March 2000
14 m awayRef 2000030000915
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A6 in Westmorland and Furness, 18 March 2025
15 m awayRef 2025031569787
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A6 in Westmorland and Furness, 3 December 1993
22 m awayRef 199303D003670
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Felicia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,289 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Felicia)
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 2002030000962 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 2002.