A 2-vehicle collision has occurred on the outskirts of Ryde this afternoon (Monday), resulting in 1 vehicle coming to rest on its roof.
The road traffic collision has taken place on the A3055 Beaper Shute between Carpenters Road and Harding Shute.
The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service, the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service and Police are all on the scene dealing with the collision.
Police have closed the road and motorists are advised to divert locally.
Southern Vectis’ Routes 2 and 3 are diverting from Brading via St Helens and Appley to reach St John’s Church. Whilst on diversion, buses are currently unable to serve Tesco or Marlborough Road.
UPDATE @ 13:15 – Fire crews from Ryde, Newport and Shanklin are currently working to free the occupant(s) of the overturned car.
The second vehicle involved is a Mitshubishi L200.
Beaper Shute remains closed in both directions alternative routes around the closure are coming heavy with traffic. Motorists are advised to plan ahead.
UPDATE @ 14:26 – A spokesperson for Hampshire Constabulary has said:
“We were called at 12.43pm today, 14 September, to reports of a two vehicle collision on Beaper Shute, Sandown. The collision was between a Mitsubishi Warrior and a Kia Carens.
“Minor injuries have been reported”.
UPDATE @ 15:45 – Beaper Shute has now re-opened in both directions.
Here we go again!
Still, nearly two whole days without a prang being reported. I wonder what the record is?
Probably about two whole days !
You could drive any old car up and down that road all day at 60mph (back in the day) without incident so it must have been some pretty impressive stunt driving to roll it.
And how many were killed?
29
A good way of checking tyre tread !
What is wrong with these so called drivers.
Maybe will be added to driving test, fail if unable to flip car.
Or hit tree and or road safety sign (delete as applicable)
The tree was to quick this time they missed it
yes, no doubt the tree jumped out at them, the driver went into a blind panic and rolled the car – how I will never know.
One thing to note, the sudden upsurge in single vehicle incidents and seemingly unexplained collisions with other cars resulting in outcomes that would normally only be seen on stunt driving, has only really been happening since mobile phones morphed into smart phones with video calling and instant messaging.
People don’t give a sh__ how they drive need a retest some of them not saying this wasn’t a genuine accident but the driving standard is terrible years ago you would get stopped for a simple thing like a light not working now it seams you can drive round like a idiot and no one cares
How about anyone that doesn’t know what’s happened, just mind their own damn busines
Kaiya – then why have island echo reported it, the incident was none of their business, why have you commented, it was none of your business, or were you at fault driving one of the cars. In case it has escaped your attention, things happen, the media report on it, a forum is created for comments and discussion and wow, guess what, people post messages after reading the news item.
perhaps you shouldn’t be such a hypocrite – commenting on messages that are none of your damn business
Mitsubishi Warrior or Mad Max Road Warrior. There does not appear to be any road traffic policing on our island, so those of little intelligence do what ever they like and its your problem if you or your family get caught up in it. There aren’t even any fixed speed cameras now to act as any sort of deterrent.
Plenty of police after an accident, our MP needs to do something about the amount of lousy driving on this island, it’s getting worse by the day.
They could start with a forty MPH speed limit on any road on the island, idiots won’t like that,but it would help….
If there is no enforcement, and people drive like idiots, there will be accidents like this irrespective of the speed limit set.
Up goes our insurance again…
Easy mistake to make mind you, if you drive carelessly that is
As I’ve said before all they teach you is how to pass your test ,not how to drive. What irks me is instructors ( you know who you are) who park on double yellow lines to pick up their pupil !
Probably two women drivers getting confused with their gear sticks and steering wheel.
Cheeky.
McDonald’s is my bet
Just wait for the speed freaks next October. You ain’t seen nothing yet.!!
Heaven help us when Ryde is all built over. Imagine the amount of cars and pushy, arrogant drivers then. Accidents will become even more common place.
The Island will lose it’s special charm which makes it different from living on the mainland. I hope the council and developers who are involved have terrible bad luck for the rest of time.
the island is known as the garden isle for good reason, it has biosphere status, large areas are SSSI and the size of the islands infrastructure makes it unsuitable for this kind of development.
those behind captiva who live on the island and can be spoken to personally at leisure, even when they think they can quietly go shopping, are not interested in preserving the above status, or protecting the natural habitats of the creatures, birds and insects that call this land their homes.
These ecological terrorists known as captiva, are not interested in reducing the CO2 emissions, as they want to concrete over the CO2 absorbing land, cut down the CO2 absorbing trees, create more rubbish, more pollution, more cars, more overcrowding on the roads and are so blind, that they cannot see that less trees and plant life, means less oxygen created and put into the atmosphere which we need to breathe.
less trees and plant life means more C02 in the atmosphere and less oxygen in the atmosphere.Which if this endless process of concreting over greenlands, cutting down forests in other areas and continual building of roads and houses, tips the balance into not enough oxygen in the atmosphere – we and all other oxygen breathing life on this planet will die due to not being able to breathe.
not too difficult to understand.