A685 crash in Westmorland and Furness on 9 December 2025 at 12:55 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness at 12:55 on Tuesday 9 December 2025. The 18-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 2025
- Tuesday, 12:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.39255, longitude -2.59837, in the CA10 postcode district. The location was in the former South Lakeland district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025031680373
- Council area
- Westmorland and Furness
- Police force
- Cumbria
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 685
- 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
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 82 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 May 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 26 May 1986
82 m awayRef 198603G102890
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 1 September 1981
161 m awayRef 198103G104930
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 26 November 1992
166 m awayRef 199203G005910
Slight
Car crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 10 March 1981
292 m awayRef 198103G101340
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 1000 crash on the A685 in Westmorland and Furness, 29 August 2011
323 m awayRef 2011030001831
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the M6 in Westmorland and Furness, 18 August 2006
328 m awayRef 2006030002346
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2025031680373 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.