A car has landed on its roof after coming off a vehicle transporter outside a garage in Newport this evening (Thursday).
Emergency services have been called to the scene at Snows on Forest Road.
A small hatchback car – a Fiat 500 – is currently upside down at the entrance to the car showroom forecourt.
Paramedics from the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service are treating 1 person for a serious injury, thought to be to their arm.
Police and fire crews are also in attendance.
UPDATE @ 18:10 – Island Roads have confirmed that Forest Road has been closed in both directions between Gunville Road and Betty Haunt Lane/Whitehouse Road.
UPDATE 19:28 – Police are describing the incident as serious and have suggested that the road will remain closed for several hours.
UPDATE – The road has now re-opened.
1 male has been taken to St Mary’s Hospital with a serious injury.
Fiat 500 .girls car .
Personally I couldn’t care what model it was just glad it was only an arm injury. Could have been far worse. Hope it wasn’t too serious an injury and the person makes a speedy recovery.
So why does the road have to be closed, just roll it back on its wheels and move it away to conduct the investigation when it is out of sight.
A sort of childish punishment to all other drivers saying without words ‘IF you drive irresponsibly, we will slow down your journey by closing the road until someone with vast knowledge can arrive from the mainland, as we are all too thick here to use a camera and a tape measure now’.
Totally agree Ben. If you look closely the car is on the actual Snows property, not on the public road. The transporter always parks like that too, so us drivers just pull over slightly to pass it.
The cars straddling the pavement not just the forecourt as is the transporter. If HSE find the transporter driver at fault, as its them that load the cars, they could out of a job.
It happens far too often . They don’t want to do traffic control.
Probably not been trained to do it !!!!!
Ooops…
Bet it was a woman driver!!
Misogynist
You’ve commented before on other stories and you are always rude towards women. What is your problem?
Clearly women are his problem
Whats the point owning such vehicles?? You can’t legally use the power..
And the price tag would be Eye wartering..
If you had such a vehicle? Would you stick to the rules of the road? or would you behave irisponsibly and put other drivers lives at risk?…
?????? what are you on about??
I was commenting on another post that someone posted, however, it would appear Island Echo has removed it, i do wish they didn’t do that..
What power? It’s a Fiat 500 not exactly a performance car
What are you talking about?
Island echo removed a comment that was made by another reader, that’s why my comment doesn’t make sense..
That’s the way to do it.
Clare what are you talking about it is a Fiat 500 for god’s sake. Also your spelling is terrible.
Sorry about my spelling, however, I was commenting on a post that has been removed by Island Echo, now everyone’s asking what I’m talking about
You have nothing to apologise for, Clare! I don’t know why people don’t read through previous comments, and then make you repeat yourself especially for them. I also don’t know why they make your spelling an issue, )I noticed nothing in that regard). Perhaps women on here can expect to be ganged up on. Keep going!
It was on the top when I went by facing the rear. Must have rolled forward.
A motorised roller skate!
We hav to close the road to prove our important and invaluable we are.
Pathetic.
The road is closed for the safety of those who have to carry out an investigation into why this happened and to preserve any possible evidence. Weldon know the circumstances of this yet, so all possibilities have to be considered. Standard procedure in ant serious injury incident. You have obviously never been involved in accident investigation, but I have. If a relative of yours has been injured you would want to know the full circumstances of how and why, and if that causes a little inconvenience to other motorists, then that is small price to pay for the truth.
I agree with the logic of what you are saying but the balance seems to have shifted with massive disruption and inconvenience frequently caused in return for minimal information gathered.
For example, was the long closure required to perform several hours of painstaking forensic examination of the scene of the incident or because cost cutting measures and convenience meant that the specialist resource needed no longer exist on the island.
I’d recommend taking some spelling lessons as part of your training next time its offered mate 🙂
We all make mistakes and his comment is perfectly understandable to anyone with a grain of sense. We’re not trying to write learned texts here.
They will have to close the road as full investigation will have to be done , no doubt… looks like it’s fallen off when Un strapping it :-/. Hope the person is ok
The prices in his garage have gone through the roof
Half of that Fiat 500 has tried to do the same!
That was Ryan’s joke.
Gives a whole new slant on “fell off the back of a lorry” Hope the injured person recovers.
Haven’t Island Roads heard about traffic lights? Sorry for the person who has been injured.
The police would of shut the road requiring island roads help to do it – not that hard to understand!!
My guess is it’s a life altering injury hence shutting the road to treat it as if it is a crime scene.