A driver has had a lucky escape after nearly being impaled on a wooden stake that came through the windscreen of their car this morning (Sunday).
Emergency services were called to Whippingham Road shortly before 06:20 following a single vehicle road traffic collision, as previous reported by Island Echo.
It has now emerged that the Toyota Aygo left the road after hitting standing water. The vehicle then collided with a wooden fence and came to rest on its side in a hedge.
Amazingly, the driver was able to self-extricate and was out of the vehicle by the time emergency crews arrived on scene.
Photos shared by Isle of Wight Police have revealed how serious the incident could have been, with a piece of wood lodged in the windscreen.
It missed the driver by inches.
Police are reminding Islanders to take care on the roads with the potential for some challenging conditions over the next week.
Challenging, what PC terminology.
Now will the actually do something about the excess water coming off of the fields and into the roads. Im not sure a ‘Flood’ sign really works….!
They will. They will build all over those fields, then run the excess water from rooves, and roads straight into rivers, causing more flooding.
But all is not lost, the plan ners, dev elopers and C o u n cil ors will be living miles away from the misery they create for others.
Words broken up as the ‘truth’ is no longer allowed to be said of such people on here. Carrot or stick one wonders?
A brain would!!.
Theres a few places where excess water comes off fields.
Then again theres a few places where people drive too fast for the conditions on wet, cold days.
Who knows which this is? (I suspect the driver knows…)
They used to make the owner of the fields do ditching digging what happen to that ,wouldn’t solve the problem but would surely help .
Maybe some one should take some responsibility
I don’t think farmers were ever made to cut ditches, they just did because it helped.
Looking at the pictures above, it’s fairly obvious that runoff had little to do with this as the ground actually slopes away either sides of the road, and there is a ride just before the accident. Where was the standing water? Before the rise? Or was the driver maybe going so fast that he lost grip on a road whilst it was raining or drizzling, and couldn’t correct because of the rise and dip that followed.
Build a bridge? Standard reply!
Or build a tunnel (other standard reply) and let the water run into that!
Lucky is an understatement
He ought to buy a lottery ticket now.
Or some Garlic, as seems like Dracular with a stake near driven through him.
Weeks of rain and flooded roads, little car, not a four wheel drive, Be Aware and drive to the conditions that you are in…
Ingage brain, keep safe!!!..
More bad driving on the iow
It never ceases to amaze me how no matter what the story can be, some commentators will somehow swing the comments into the direction of housing development.
Simply using the Echo for political/environmental gain. A simple no cost way to turn any story to their way of thinking.
The section of road that that I can see is dry and sloping down.
Yes, the standing water is usually on the other side of the road… assuming he was coming towards E Cowes…
It hits both sides of the road there. It is worse going towards Newport. Possibly spun the car. Either way crikey that was a close call. Years ago similar happened to a family friend on the mainland. They were not so lucky and were impaled by a post and killed. Thank goodness that did not happen on this occasion. Floods and dark roads can catch out drivers. Take care all.
His car or her car? What’s with the ‘their’ car?
It was a woman. Hence the disclosure.
Lucky escape from Covid.