A66 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 17 September 2014 at 12:05 involving a Mazda 6
A Mazda 6 and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness at 12:05 on Wednesday 17 September 2014. The 51-year-old male driver of the Mazda 6 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 2014
- Wednesday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda 6 and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.54411, longitude -2.39584, in the CA16 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
- 2014030002287
- 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
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 August 2009.
Slight
Renault crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 5 August 2009
10 m awayRef 2009030002240
Serious
Van crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 8 October 1988
14 m awayRef 198803E309930
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 2 May 1992
14 m awayRef 199203D001120
Serious
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 3 July 1994
14 m awayRef 1994030001773
Fatal
BMW 1 Series crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 16 June 2015
20 m awayRef 2015030001496
Slight
John Deere crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 30 September 2005
20 m awayRef 2005030003214
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda 6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,191 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda 6)
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 2014030002287 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 2014.