A driver lost control and ended up putting their car on its roof on Military Road this morning (Friday) after allegedly slamming on the brakes upon seeing the Police’s speed camera van.
The incident occurred sometime before 11:30 just a few metres away from Hampshire Constabulary’s mobile speed enforcement van on Military Road, near to the Dinosaur Farm.
Island Echo reporters were deployed to the scene but the vehicle had vanished by the time we got there – with just skid marks and debris marking the spot where the incident had occurred.
Police arrived on scene a few minutes later, also bemused that the vehicle had already been recovered.
It’s thought that the vehicle – a small black Kia Picanto – was travelling towards Freshwater when the driver came over the brow of a hill and sighted the chevroned speed camera van, slamming on the brakes to reduce speed but losing control in the process, veering off the carriageway to the right hand side.
It’s understood a man and a woman escaped uninjured.
Can understand why the police were “bemused” – perhaps the driver concerned will respect the speed limits on the Island.
If we had HIDDEN speed cameras then these incidents would not happen and we would catch hundreds more as drivers flash oncoming speeders causing many to escape to speed once past the camera
Also with hidden cameras then it would save paying for an officer or two to be sat in vans stationary when they could be in unmarked police cars driving virtual anywhere on the Island to catch dangerous driving, which is often NOT necessarily speed related. Least not speed, as in speeding.
So right in front of the rozzers and they STILL lost it?
Civilians work in camera vans, not police
He must have been going at quite a speed.
Another mysterious “accident” nothing to do with the idiot driving.
More idiots will be along soon….more speed vans must follow…
So the speed camera van operator didn’t see what happened to the car it just vanished?
That’s because there is no one in the police van just the camera.
That’s what happens when you put a flat foot with a radar in a van , and vans scaring snails nobody about flat foot drinking tea in the back of van
He must have been going as fast as a pensioner with a moggy
I presume you mean a Moggy Minor? My puss-cat spends a lot of time on it’s back.
pointless crap for another ageist idiot whose limited intelligence doesn’t tell him he is getting older and unless he does the planet a favour will be a pensioner as well.
An illiterate statement
You old fool
Ageist…..Sorry but I had to say ir
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The irony, speed safety camera van, is there really any need for that to be along the milly rd?
mate i live along it, and if you havent seen, people speed to much along here, i cant even cross to the feild opposite me without getting killed! i know the person that crashed, and good job a speed van was here otherwise it couldve been an even worse crash! its very hard to get the police to get a camera van here,so this is a first!
How do you know, you can’t get to the field opposite without getting killed?
Milly Road is the one good road for speed if you don’t like it move house.
Totally agree I live in freshwater and walk along cliff regularly and every time i walking alongside Military road there are speeding cars and bikes. Last week a white car drove over the fields by the pepper pot on to the wrong side of the road whilst his girlfriend ? crossed the road and walked towards freshwater he was laughing and beeping and continued to drive on the wrongside past the tin Chapel beeping the woman on opposite side meanwhile cars were coming around corner driving towards Niton. I could go on..and no he was not a ‘oldie’ just a very arrogant dangerous man in his late 20s and let’s not talk about Moa place the Avenue Queens Road brookside….
Actually because of all the ignorant stupid drivers and riders that never stick to speed limits, seems we need one of these vans on every road on this Island !! Bring back the speed cameras.. and more.. reduce speed limits to 20mph in the towns.. .. speed kills..
Ironic isn’t it. I was stopped by the police whilst obeying the speed limit and given an arrogant lecture about speed and consequences etc etc, apparently the young officers of today slip from the womb already ( and quite wrongly in this case) calibrated as a human speed camera.
And yet this happens right in front of them and an actual camera……….. LOL.
I’m prepared to be corrected but are the speed van operators serving police officers? I’m not sure if they are, I’m sure I spoke to one once who said he was ex police.
I think you’ll find there is only 1 Police van that is equipped with a speed camera inside. There only used to be 1 van with the same officer inside. Maybe others know of more now?
Civilian employed to operate camera I believe
The answer is, well slow down and don’t bloody speed then. What a dipstick!
See this is why we shouldn’t have them fucking speed vans they are a distraction!
Can the “f” word please be replaced with stars if the comment is going to be published please?
Get rid of them they are a dangerous hazard the accident would have never of even occurred if the van was not there in the 1st place!
police are just literally useless they cause more problems then they solve and never help when you need them the most they should fuck off back to the mainland and quit all this shit before they end up taking lifes with there distraction and cameras.
Assholes.
Can the “f” word please be replaced with stars if the comment is going to be published please?
Would have been safer and cheaper to have got caught and paid a fine.
I wonder how fast you would have to be going to roll a car by slamming on brakes. I suppose it would also depend on make and model and weather conditions and ABS situation. There was the one at Afton Marshes earlier this week where the passenger said the driver was not speeding but ‘tried to brake'(?) then the car ‘slipped’ and left the road. Interesting
A lot of unconscious bias claims here!
No evidence whatsoever that the driver was speeding at all, or even saw the van!
Maybe the driver saw or thought he saw an obstruction or animal on the road and endeavoured to avoid it?
Besides which, the incident allegedly took place “metres” from the police van and yet the vehicle was “recovered” in minutes before the police arrived??? How does that add up? I’d like to imagine my recovery service was that quick?
LOT of baseless assumptions being made in both the article and the comments.
Grow some brain cells peeps!!