Serious A685 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 8 November 2014 at 18:20 involving a Nissan Micra
A Nissan Micra crashed on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness at 18:20 on Saturday 8 November 2014. The 23-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Nov 2014
- Saturday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.43547, longitude -2.419, in the CA17 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014030002756
- 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
- 685
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 January 1989.
Serious
Car crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 17 January 1989
36 m awayRef 198903E300580
Serious
Hyundai Lantra crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 14 December 1997
36 m awayRef 1997030003807
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 14 December 2005
86 m awayRef 2005030004075
Slight
Car crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 17 June 1988
132 m awayRef 198803E305350
Slight
Renault Scenic crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 5 June 2017
132 m awayRef 2017030189486
Serious
Suzuki crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 11 February 1995
177 m awayRef 1995030000452
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Micra)
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 2014030002756 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.