B6259 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 9 February 2018 at 14:30 involving a Peugeot 206
A goods vehicle and a Peugeot 206 were involved in a crash on the B6259 in Westmorland and Furness at 14:30 on Friday 9 February 2018. The 26-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 206 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Feb 2018
- Friday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Goods vehicle and Peugeot 206
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.50574, longitude -2.3583, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018030283438
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Cumbria
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 6259
- 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
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 224 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 2025.
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on the B6259 in Westmorland and Furness, 19 June 2025
224 m awayRef 2025031605164
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B6259 in Westmorland and Furness, 17 May 2011
232 m awayRef 2011030000998
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 3 June 1999
519 m awayRef 1999030001620
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the B6259 in Westmorland and Furness, 12 November 2016
762 m awayRef 2016030129557
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the B6259 in Westmorland and Furness, 11 August 1995
1.0 km awayRef 1995030002301
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B6259 in Westmorland and Furness, 25 April 2009
1.0 km awayRef 2009030000943
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 206
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 206)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2018030283438 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 2018.