B6260 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 1 December 2015 at 17:10 involving a Ford KA
A Ford KA crashed on the B6260 in Westmorland and Furness at 17:10 on Tuesday 1 December 2015. The 20-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Dec 2015
- Tuesday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford KA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.43815, longitude -2.59262, 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
- 2015030002951
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6260
- 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 with 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 61 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 7 July 2022.
Serious
Suzuki Swift crash on an unclassified road in Westmorland and Furness, 7 July 2022
61 m awayRef 2022031196105
Slight
Chrysler PT Cruiser crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 18 July 2006
71 m awayRef 2006030001995
Serious
Lorry crash on the B6260 in Westmorland and Furness, 19 June 1989
108 m awayRef 198903G104030
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 1 January 2019
113 m awayRef 2019030805676
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 27 January 2019
116 m awayRef 2019030811554
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 18 January 1986
117 m awayRef 198603G100450
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford KA)
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 2015030002951 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 2015.