Officers investigating a suspected hit and run that left a pensioner in need of hospital treatment have been alerted to the discovery of a vehicle matching the description of the car involved.
Police have been called to the rear car park of The Sun Inn in Calbourne this afternoon (Friday) after being informed to the presence of the green coloured 2001 plate Mazda 323F by the pub’s proprietors.
It’s understood that the car appeared overnight, with the management of the local pub contacting Police on 101 after reading an earlier appeal featured on Island Echo.
As first reported by Island Echo, Police have been attempting to locate a car thought to have been involved in a collision on Forest Road yesterday (Thursday) in which a 76-year-old woman sustained serious injuries.
After the incident, the driver of a green car – which is thought to have sustained significant damage to the driver’s side door from the impact – is said to have sped off up Betty Haunt Lane towards Middle Road.
It is yet to be confirmed whether the Mazda is the vehicle involved in the collision yesterday, but it is a strong line of enquiry for investigating officers.
Island Echo has approached Hampshire Constabulary for an update.
UPDATE @ 18:00 – Police say the driver of the second vehicle involved in the collision has now been identified and officers have spoken to him.
Enquiries are ongoing and no arrests have been made at the current time.
As despicable the hit and run incident is, and there is no excuse for it, but isn’t it time that this dangerous junction will be made safer? At least visibility from Whitehouse Road can be easily improved, and the very sharp corners could be rounded off. There are also suggestions to reduce the speed limit on Forest Road or the introduction of either a roundabout or traffic lights.
In any case, something really needs to be done here!
I totally agree. Whenever I’ve been at that crossroads, it usually consists of carefully edging out, drivers opposite U flashing their lights & waving U across or even a driver stopping on Forest road & holding back the traffic to let U out.
How many more accidents or deaths do there need to be before something will be done!!
Agree, after the accident that killed an island lady, it was reported, after investigations, that work was to be done… so far nothing.
Last week a car coming from Newport turned in front of me (I was travelling from Yarmouth)to go down Whitehouse lane. I was going slow due to volume of traffic, fortunately, clearly the driver was embarrassed albeit in a hurry.
I know of other people who have experienced the same scenario. It is another fatality waiting to happen until something is done.
No more traffic lights or roundabouts please.
Just cut the hedges back to improve the visibility on that junction. You can see all the way up the road in both directions and cars don’t dissappear in the dip unless the car is under two foot high.
I use this junction daily, I know it well.
Total scum bag for driving away and leaving an injured person. Why did you drive off? No insurance, no road tax or MOT? Drunk or drugged up???? Total piece of scum you are. Hope you are reading these comments. Hope the police get you, you deserve all you get.
They’ve probably already rung the police to tell them their car was stolen. Difficult to charge them without knowing who was driving unless there’s cctv or dashcam evidence.
Deserve all they get? A small fine and told to go away and not do it again. Specially if it turns out they were drunk or drugged up, the do gooders will be out of the word-work making all kinds of excuses for them.
and that should of course have read “woodwork” not word-work, damn this ridiculous auto correct facility! My stupidity though in allowing it to ‘correct’ something that was right to begin with.
I’ve been driving along that road when the car in front of me just stopped to let someone out of Whitehouse Lane. I can only assume people think they are being polite by doing so, but they are behaving in a very dangerous manner and don’t seem to have a clue about the rules of the road – and don’t get me started on roundabouts, people all just sit there looking at one another, obviously not knowing their left from their right so don’t understand what ‘give way to traffic from your right’ means.
I blame the violence on television. The Beast Must Die, recently filmed here, clearly having an effect on people lately.
The Island has recently become associated with all the wrong things. Doesn’t do much for our image at all.