A66 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 2 December 2025 at 00:45 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness at 00:45 on Tuesday 2 December 2025. The 21-year-old male driver and a 20-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Dec 2025
- Tuesday, 00:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.59229, longitude -2.52624, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025031676788
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 January 2023.
Serious
Volvo crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 10 January 2023
8 m awayRef 2023031261313
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 19 May 2009
97 m awayRef 2009030001203
Serious
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 11 December 2000
104 m awayRef 2000030003464
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 26 November 2000
104 m awayRef 2000030003328
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 4 April 1999
104 m awayRef 1999030001091
Serious
Subaru Legacy crash on the A66 in Westmorland and Furness, 3 June 2000
104 m awayRef 2000030001557
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2025031676788 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 2025.