A lorry has careered into a shop front in Freshwater this morning (Monday) resulting in one of the main roads in the village being blocked. Emergency service crews were first called to Avenue Road at around 09:30 following reports that a lorry had crashed into the local pharmacy – Kemkay. Island Echo understands that the lorry was pulling out from a parked position when a technical issue struck leaving the driver helpless as the HGV crashed into the pharmacy-frontage. A total of 2 other cars have been damaged in the incident – a VW and a Citroen. No injuries have been sustained it is understood. Avenue Road is currently blocked, with traffic in the area very heavy. It is expected to be sometime until the HGV is recovered and the road reopened. 
ROAD BLOCKED AS LORRY PLOUGHS INTO SHOP FRONT IN FRESHWATER
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Just waiting for the usual idiots to come on here with their stupid comments about Island drivers.
Hope no ones been hurt in this incident.
More island vehicles with dodgy MOTs, like all the delivery vans with rear doors held on by a single hinge
Yea or usual ageist comments…..boring
I drove in Greater London for many years . The true Islander just wouldn’t survive . Speed , driving habits are a World apart .
The True Islander would not survive? What a peculiar thing to say. To begin with, what is a ‘true Islander?’ Someone born here? If so, do you mean they have less mental accuity than non-caulkheads?
Looks a little heavy on the rear axel for that 7.5t lorry….
The jokers on the island amaze me.
What next, planes falling out of the sky.
Who the Fcuk crashes a lorry into a shop
CAN ONLY HAPPEN ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT
He thought it was a drive in
looks Like a 3 car accident, no injuries thank god, will be closed for a while, this road should be 20mph zone.
you still trying to get to Newport on your Raleigh Chipper?
“ technical issue”
Not maintained correctly and with so few police no longer spot checks on vehicles. As the courts are backup and not time to deal with a conviction the police will do nothing but just sit and watch. What can they do, when they do put the work in nothing happens. Welcome to the UK that the Tories built. 14 years of cuts has destroy the country. Should be a public enquiry into what the F the Tories been doing the last 14 years.
That’s nothing to what the Marxist are going to do….
Goodness Gracious!! Thank goodness no one was killed or injured.!! Bloody vehicles so many now, it’s unsafe to walk on pavements.!!
It is unsafe on many Island pavements
due to IW Council allowing selfish B’stards to
Park on Pavements.
Time for a pavement parking ban on the island.
Try walking down Regent Street in Shanklin
So many selfish B’stards are parked on the pavement
He probably saw the NHS sign and thought this was his only way of actually getting seen promptly.