An ambulance has been damaged and taken off the road as a result of a crash in Sandown this morning (Thursday).
The incident has occurred on Perowne Way, at the traffic light junction with Avenue Road.
The Isle of Wight Ambulance Service vehicle has sustained nearside front end damage in the smash, with a Vauxhall Corsa sustaining side impact damage to the driver’s door which has resulted in the window smashing.
No one is thought to have been injured in the crash.
Traffic is heavy in the area with queues forming back to the Central Store on Perowne Way.
It’s unknown at this stage if the ambulance was responding to an emergency call.
UPDATE @ 11:26 – It has been confirmed that the ambulance was responding to a 999 call at the time of the crash.
A spokesperson for the Isle of Wight NHS Trust has said:
“One of our Emergency Ambulance vehicles was involved in a minor collision with another vehicle in Sandown this morning whilst responding to a 999 call.
“There was no patient onboard at the time. Everyone involved including the crew and the people in the car involved are OK and no injuries were sustained.
“The next available Ambulance was dispatched to attend the emergency call”.
The queue is now all the way back to Lake. Avoid at all costs!
Well done WIGHT FIBERS.
SURELY people can see that Wight Fibre if a private company could, or would never be able to afford to connect up a service to every home on the Island.
The cost of digging up and making good such, on a service which may or may not be taken up would bankrupt all private businesses.
There is clearly a purpose larger than we are being informed of to allow such destruction and disruption.
Either we will be a test area, and have digital TV mast ended forcing us to sign up or a test area for driverless cars, who need reliable wifi.
Watch and learn.
This is all being funded by the Government.
It was a part of one of there election manifesto’s. Fact.
Not helped by the understaffed road works (2people working on Lake hill yesterday). It was only a matter of time and hope those involved can get over it. About time the council insisted on works taking less time by insisting there are more workers present working.
John Prescott (Labour) introduced a system whereby contractors had to “rent” roadspace for the duration of their works, making a strong inducement to be speedy over it.
Guess which flavour of government scrubbed that idea?
Same today
When you do see road workers they are usually chatting on their phones, sat in their trucks eating… most of the time there is no one there. Saw a group along thorness road today at 9.30 am – sat in the cab eating their breakfasts… they are not managed properly !
Another old driver that can’t see
Or perhaps a Red Bull-fuelled boy racer who thought he could squeeze through despite the blues-and-twos? But of course, we don’t know.
There’s far too many of these chavey old bangers on our roads….drugged up…
I’m not sure ambulance drivers are that old?
Idiot
Apart from a plethora of road accident collisions, does anything else happen on this island?
Oh yes!!!!! I almost forgot!
Ferry and train cancellations!
Yes, we have all the roads dug up, constantly. It’s an Island pastime.
One less ambulance on the road. Not good.
Fewer.
I trust the Ambulance was on B & 2’s..
responding to a 999 call, work it out Sherlock.
Can we PLEASE have a break from the constant roadworks? This is, I believe, the second collision in the Perowne way diversion in a week or so and I think someone said at the time about emergency services getting caught up in it.
How about stopping all Wight Fibre roadworks until the Autumn or do we want all the holidaymaker’s abiding memory of their holiday on the Island to be one of roadworks every single place they go?
Don’t blame the roadworks for BAD driving
Most don’t know what bad driving is, this is the Isle of Wight…
THINK, there is more to all this than ‘just’ providing a service to people. The cost is huge, and IF people don’t sign up, no private compay could afford the outlay.
Far far more to this than just ‘another’ internet provider.
how a bout learning to drive?