A crash outside the Lynnbottom Household Waste Recycling Centre is causing delays on a main Island road this morning (Wednesday). Emergency service crews were called to the road traffic collision at around 10:30. The incident occurred directly outside the tip. Island Echo understands that a car attempted to get around the queue for the tip and collided head-on with another vehicle. Briddlesford Road is currently blocked between Gravel Pit Lane and Downend. Southern Vectis buses are also diverting. UPDATE @ 11:30 – The incident has been cleared and the road has reopened. Lynnbottom tip has also reopened.
UPDATED: CRASH AT LYNNBOTTOM TIP FORCES ROAD CLOSURE ON BRIDDLESFORD ROAD
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More angry idiots will be along soon…
Well council are responsible, shouldn’t have to Qué on main road. Plenty of ground time to extend slipway .
The crash in fact happened at 09h55 when there was lots of queuing traffic waiting for the gates to open at 10h00. Definitely a contributing factor.
What they should do is limity the number of 10am cars to 6. same for 10:15. Then allow a few more for 10:30. But that’s too easy isn’t it….
Thanks John, that explains it. Recently I made the mistake of booking a 10:00 slot and when I arrived just after 10 the queue was back on to the main road. Next time I booked for mid-afternoon and drove straight in, no drama.
Why does the Island insist you book’ a slot’ to dump waste? I live in Northampton, where the tip is closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, but I don’t have to book a slot when it is open; I drive in, dump, and leave.
can only happen on that island i think you all need to take a yearly retest
It’s part of island culture, there all bloody mad…
It’s ‘they’re’. This is Primary School stuff!
And you need to take a hike! You have absolutely no idea whether the driver/drivers involved were originally from the Island. Wind your neck back in, and stop making such childish comments.
It was not a car trying to get past the queue for the tip, it was a total nob head in a SUV who tried to overtake a coach on the road and drove straight into oncoming traffic. I hope the police throw the book at the idiot for dangerous driving but will probably just get a telling off when they could have killed someone.
Bit basic, if you can’t see don’t overtake.
Any motorist other than an Emergency Service vehicle who
drives on the wrong side of the road needs locking up.
Too many selfish inconsiderate backward B’stards on our roads.
Set an example.
Lock up the driver and crush their vehicle.
THEY WON’T DO IT AGAIN!!
What if just want to overtake an old dodery dangerous driver?
So nobody should ever overtake someone then? Even bicycles? What a bloody stupid statement.
When overtaking a cyclist, you don’t have to go on the
wrong side of the road.
I must admit I have seen some Numpty Caulkheads do so!
That’s because they are not confident overtaking cyclists.
“When overtaking a cyclist, you don’t have to go on the wrong side of the road.”
Yes you do! (if you obey the current rules)
Yes you do, 1.5 metres should be the minimum distance away when overtaking a cyclist. Not 2 inches because you’re too lazy to wait for a safe opportunity to pass. If you can’t use the significant power a car engine delivers to manoeuvre your car around a 5ft long bike you shouldn’t be behind the wheel. Even a bottom rung runabout with 50 horsepower can pass a cyclist safely if being driven with someone who has at least 2 brain cells to rub together.
Standard of driving on the island is diabolical, I have to undo other road users mistakes every single day whilst I drive a ****-off great big van down roads not designed for them, millimetres away from ripping door mirrors off, whilst also on a ridiculously tight timeframe
Passing a cyclist closely doesn’t make you confident it makes you unworthy of holding a license. Knowing the size of your vehicle however, and using ALL of YOUR available road space to create better flow for everyone using the road. That’s confidence used and applied in the right way. Not nearly making someone come off their bike because you want to pass them as closely as you can, supposedly demonstrating your superior driving skills yeah? Clown.