M6 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 21 November 2005 at 13:35 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness at 13:35 on Monday 21 November 2005. The 20-year-old male driver, a 20-year-old male passenger and a 15-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 2005
- Monday, 13:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.55753, longitude -2.67492, 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
- 2005030003812
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 58 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 September 2025.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 20 September 2025
58 m awayRef 2025031644275
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 8 January 2011
58 m awayRef 2011030000086
Slight
Car crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 19 September 1988
64 m awayRef 198803E309190
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 9 December 1991
64 m awayRef 199103D003740
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 10 July 1996
64 m awayRef 1996030001751
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 25 October 2006
72 m awayRef 2006030003142
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,589 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 2005030003812 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.