Serious A66 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 7 July 2018 at 11:23 involving a Kia Rio
A car and a Kia Rio were involved in a crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness at 11:23 on Saturday 7 July 2018. The 53-year-old female driver of the Kia Rio was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Jul 2018
- Saturday, 11:23
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Kia Rio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.5949, longitude -2.53132, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018030309648
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 38 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 August 1983.
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 11 August 1983
38 m awayRef 198303E306300
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 5 April 1990
99 m awayRef 199003D001710
Serious
Car crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 22 December 1989
105 m awayRef 198903E311100
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 27 March 1997
105 m awayRef 1997030000939
Slight
Volvo crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 17 August 2015
105 m awayRef 2015030002137
Slight
Scania crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 23 October 2024
160 m awayRef 2024031557807
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Kia Rio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Kia Rio)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018030309648 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.