Police were called to Whitehouse Road near Porchfield during the early hours of this morning (Sunday) after a car overturned.
The incident occurred shortly before 01:00 and resulted in the fast section of road, which connects Porchfield to Forest Road, being blocked in both directions.
Island Echo is told that the driver fled the scene.
The vehicle is thought to have rolled several times on a bend. Skid marks are visible.
UPDATE @ 12:20 – A 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and failing to stop at the scene of an accident.
Island Echo is told that a local landowner found the suspect hiding behind a digger and marched him to Police officers at the crash site.
A spokesperson for Hampshire Constabulary has said:
”We were called at 12.51am on Sunday 12 July to a report of a single-vehicle road traffic collision in Whitehouse Road, Porchfield.
Article continues below this advertisement “Officers attended. A 22-year-old man from Newport was arrested on suspicion of driving a motor vehicle when alcohol level above limit, and failing to stop.
“He is currently in police custody”.
No section of road is ‘fast’, only the people that drive on it. Hope everyone is ok.
Yet another “low life” drink or drug driver. How come these vile humans roll their cars but manage to get out and run away? There’s no justice. Someone who is driving in their car, minding their own business and gets hit by one of these idiots ends up in a wheelchair or worse. Hope the police find this low life and he/she gets what’s coming to them.
Don’t worry idiots that run leave a heap of DNA and evidence at the scene, the boys and girls in blue can easily have that recorded for future use/reference.
All should be charged with attempted manslaughter.
All should do time in jail, have their cars sold and or fined heavily.
All should be banned for five years.
Yet courts know the jails are full of the third worlds finest so we can no longer jail our own growing low life for meaningful sentences and they know it, so the risk to them is worth it.
The trouble with jailing people! they learn more about the criminal underworld and it’s activities whilst courtesy of HMP.
So what, bang them up anyway, if they offend again, bang them up again….Simple..
A simplistic view, not an intelligent one.
Perhaps but at least they have been punished and it gets them off the road
Remove their right to drive, and make sure it’s enforced.
Another crash and run driver. They are likely to be tracked down by police eventually , and are only adding to their problems by running.
Hopefully sentencing will reflect the extra cost of the police time and recovery costs involved.
Someone close to them knows who they are and what they have done. Do them a big favour and report them.
Unless they are dealt with they will not change their ways, and next time may kill themselves or someone else.
Obviously going far too fast. At least this idiot didn’t injure anyone else.
Police say they want to concentrate on the Military road, I can think on plenty other roads! They should watch the Middle/Calbourne road, plenty of idiots driving on there.