A collision involving a Lexus and another vehicle is causing traffic delays on a main road in Lake this afternoon (Wednesday).
Motorists are facing delays on Newport Road and in the busy Lake High Street area as a result of the crash, which occurred around 16:50.
The front end of a Lexus Rc 300H has sustained significant damage, although no one is thought to have been injured. A second vehicle has also sustained damage.
Emergency services are now yet on scene.
Those travelling in The Bay area should allow extra time for their journey with traffic backing up to The Broadway, Sandown.
UPDATE @ 17:15 – Emergency crews are now in attendance at the crash, including 1 fire appliance from Shanklin in the interests of scene safety.
Southern Vectis is reporting significant delays on its Route 2, 3 and 8 buses.
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More idiots will be along soon….
I would be surprised given the extent of the damage if “excess speed” wasn’t a factor…..
Wrong. Two vehicles colliding head-on equals the combined speed of both vehicles. Even at low speeds this value can be significant. It has nothing to do with one vehicle speeding and everything to do with an impatient driver. Don’t jump to conclusions.
Do you know for a fact that both vehicles were moving? Do you know one of the drivers was “impatient”? Don’t jump to conclusions.
An excess of impatience?
Cash for crash………?
I was there and i can definitely say speed was not involved.
One hell of a lot of damage for speed not being a possible course…
Lexus sport, say’s it all
How does it? Please explain?
That junction is an accident waiting to happen. Nobody wants to give way, and if a bus is at the stop by the vets, then it’s a nightmare trying to cross the road by the Stag
Errm…
there are two light controlled crossings on the road, how so difficult to cross?
From working in body shops, new cars like a Lexus, are designed to crumple like that, the front is plastic, maybe the bonnet is metal. Hitting a solid object at 20-30 MPH will collapse like that. I was in my car in Morrisons, a new estate car was creeping into the space next to me, he misjudged the gap between his frontend and the solid metal post, he didn’t brake and he hit the post at about 2-3 MPH no more, it hardly made a sound, all I heard was a crack. I got out and looked at the front of his car, it had completely cracked in two from the bonnet line, through the grill, right down to under the bumper, he needed a whole new front end.