A66 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 15 February 2005 at 00:09 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness at 00:09 on Tuesday 15 February 2005. The 18-year-old male 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
- 15 Feb 2005
- Tuesday, 00:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.653, longitude -2.66953, 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
- 2005030000296
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 66
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 30 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 December 2011.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 2 December 2011
30 m awayRef 2011030002639
Serious
Car crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 8 December 1979
40 m awayRef 197903E109770
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 21 November 2001
60 m awayRef 2001030003403
Slight
Scania crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 24 March 1997
108 m awayRef 1997030000878
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Westmorland and Furness, 18 September 2008
130 m awayRef 2008030002579
Slight
Mini One crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 5 June 2022
131 m awayRef 2022031188768
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 2005030000296 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 2005.