M6 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 22 May 2024 at 19:30 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 crashed on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness at 19:30 on Wednesday 22 May 2024. The 22-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 May 2024
- Wednesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.49726, longitude -2.64381, 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
- 2024031446563
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 6
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 June 2022.
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 26 June 2022
16 m awayRef 2022031192195
Slight
Minibus crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 5 May 1984
17 m awayRef 198403E303110
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 5 January 2025
68 m awayRef 2025031537881
Serious
Car crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 6 September 1985
83 m awayRef 198503E307290
Serious
Ford KA crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 29 May 1999
101 m awayRef 1999030001575
Slight
Volvo crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 10 January 2008
107 m awayRef 2008030000030
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2024031446563 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 2024.