A689 crash in Cumberland on 9 August 2014 at 18:25 involving a Ford Fusion
A car and a Ford Fusion were involved in a crash on the A689 in Cumberland at 18:25 on Saturday 9 August 2014. The 35-year-old female driver of the Ford Fusion was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Aug 2014
- Saturday, 18:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Fusion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.92787, longitude -2.5906, in the CA8 postcode district. The location was in the former Carlisle district.
Map of where the crash happened in Cumberland
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014030002098
- Council area
- Cumberland
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 689
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 1999.
Slight
HGV crash on the A689 in Cumberland, 1 November 1999
22 m awayRef 1999030003264
Slight
Car crash on the A689 in Cumberland, 21 November 1981
50 m awayRef 198103D106550
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A689 in Cumberland, 26 April 1983
50 m awayRef 198303D102150
Serious
Honda crash on the A689 in Cumberland, 21 July 1996
112 m awayRef 1996030001903
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the A689 in Cumberland, 5 July 1995
150 m awayRef 1995030001794
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A689 in Westmorland and Furness, 21 December 1996
250 m awayRef 1996039600095
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fusion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fusion)
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 2014030002098 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Cumberland road accident statistics for 2014.