A tractor’s trailer has overturned on the main Rookley to Godshill road this evening (Bank Holiday Monday).
The road is completely blocked in both directions near Bow Bridge as you enter the village of Godshill from the north.
Southern Vectis is advising that their buses are unable to serve Godshill at this time.
The main A3020 Newport Road is likely to remain closed for several hours.
Readers are reporting cars are being diverted from the junction of Chequers Inn Road by Merstone and the Whitwell junction in Godshill.
UPDATE @ 19:45 – The Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service are on scene alongside colleagues from the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service and Police.
Fire appliances from Newport and Shanklin and the rescue tender from Newport are on the scene alongside a duty fire officer. Firefighters are working to free the driver of the tractor using specialist high access equipment.
The Claas tractor was carting cut grass cuttings and was travelling towards Rookley at the time of the rollover. The Bailey branded trailer has been damaged as a result of the incident.
UPDATE @ 22:45 – Newport Road has now reopened to traffic.
The road has now been cleared of debris and the trailer has been moved to a nearby field.
UPDATE TUESDAY – It has been confirmed that the tractor driver was taken to hospital with serious injuries after being extricated from the tractor through the back window.
How the heck did that happen.
Going too fast around the corner !
They speed through Whitwell and down the road toward Godshill all the time.
What corner? You seen the pic
phil were you in the cab no so stop ya bullshit comments the witness es behind said he was not speeding so troll no more
100% speed involved or did the trailer just happen to fall over after going round a LEFT hand bend funny that a double decker bus has never fallen over on this bend
Accidents happen and a double decker bus is not towing anything behind! It is an accident so instead of being a no it all think about the poor driver with serious injuries. It isn’t about speed and when they are fully loaded they aren’t going to go fast at all. What about the poor person laid in a hospital bed wondering if he will ever work again as he has broken his back! And his poor family getting that phone call they all dread. So if u don’t have anything nice to say then don’t say anything. Farmers keep us going and have every right to work just like everyone else.
I wish him a fast recovery all I said was speed was involved you can’t say it wasn’t trailers don’t just fall over. I have never seen a HGV on its side on that bend. Lots of people on here saying they see these tractors speeding around maybe we are all seeing things.
At least a motorcycle involved that would of got you lot going let’s ban all cars motorcycles tractors and lorry’s so it peaceful for all these dfls it’s a accident ok don’t you get it
These Bio crop drivers always drive a fast as they can. I would guess they are paid depending on how many loads they can shift per day.
This needs to stop, Check out the roads where they drive and you will see huge skid marks where they have narrowly avoided accidents.
One day soon they will kill or maim someone for life.
They need investigation as the whole scheme is not as it seems and FAR from green.
A German owned company which is subsidised via the EU.
No they are not paid by the load so until you have the facts then no need to comment on
Drivers from the green waste site are paid by the amount of runs, so drive like mad men to earn the max.
They will kill someone before long. This needs to cease.
The trailer was damaged! Should read lucky no one was killed
These oversized tractors and trailers regularly travel at alarming speeds through Godshill, much as most traffic does these days. This could so easily have happened in the middle of Godshill.
This is one of those huge tractors which drive like maniacs to supply the SO CALLED ‘green bio digester’ in Arreton.
This is anything BUT green as several huge tractors using diesel cause massive traffic queues, causing more pollution as does the harvesting of the ‘green crops’ specifically grown for this digester.
Also as acres are growing crops to digest and farmers are paid a certain sum, they then don’t grow food crops, which makes those who do charge more OR we have to import more, thus losing the edge on any PERCEIVED saving of Co2 production.
It is a massive con, and only a fudged exercise funded by grants.
You don’t know what your talking about buddy
I know exactly how that plant works as i used to work there
There is no waste what so ever and all very much green
Oh, but I do know.
Working there does not necessarily mean you were involved in the politics of it all. I know someone who was.
This was UK owned, then, after the EU vote, it was sold off to a German company so as the EU funding and subsidise would keep flowing.
There is NO way that this would ever be profitable without such.
Farmers are happy to accept their certain payment to grow bio on their land, as they don’t have to do anything except check their account to see that the cash in paid in.
As I said, by the time you add up the loss of food production of crops which could have been grown on the land, thus forcing….cont
.cont… up the cost of food here, and the fact that because LESS food is then grown here, more is imported thus losing any ‘green gain’ by those dim enough to think that it ever was.
The UK accepts this as it looks good to say we are meeting our green obligations, BUT the truth is never told of how much cost is involved in both machinery, diesel, manpower, and knock on effects of loss of farmer then growing ‘other crops’ for people or animals to eat.
Tell us then do the drivers get paid by how many loads they bring in, for the way they all drive would indicate such. They will kill someone one day. Justify THAT then.
Yeah as green as my local brook when the high levels of gestate wash out after the heavy autumn rain waste injected into fields washes out to sea kills sea grass fact !
YOU are wrong Buddy.
Very UN GREEN, using gallons of diesel to both cut and cart the green crops to the digester. Also because farmers get paid well to grow green crops they no longer grow foodstuffs.
So we have to import far more now, thus adding to the carbon dioxide emmisions.
YOU may have worked there but NOT on the technical side for sure Bud.
Filling it up with rotten veg I would wager.
Is this the 3rd or 4th time with these tractors,one in Newport, one Arreton .
So many Tractors go way too fast
The unit looks the ones that transport the plant material to Arreton gasification plant.
Live in Lake & seen these units driving at high speed on Newport Road.
Appears that the driver’s are paid by the load & drive dangerously to make more money.
Appears to be no visible mechanical issues with tractor or trailer the only thing is excessive speed!
Just observe all the huge skid marks on the roads where these lunatic tractor drives use from bio crops to Arreton.
Their pay MUST depend on the amount they deliver for no normal driver of tractors cause so many near misses.
This practise of paying by the number of trailer loads needs to stop before people are killed.
Our MP needs to investigate this as it is anything BUT green
As Martin Goodman (Friday Night Dinner) would say, “Shit on it!”
In the summer it is reminiscent of the old ’50’s fil ” Hell Drivers”! On trips from Ryde to Newport last year I consistently counted 6 tractor trailers either going to or from Arreton. All in the space of a 25 minute journey. How it is considered to be ‘green’ I shall never know – just think of the fuel use and pollution. It went on for weeks. The drivers were maniacs too. Personally, I think a review of this ‘facility’ should take place.
While the accident might not have been from exsessive (breaking the Legal Speed Limit), It is a common thing that is speed related, and load security, as grass cannot be tide down, so every bump, sudden braking or acceleration can cause load shift. and too much load on the front of the trailer can cause instability due to the hitch point being the only thing supporting the load, I do know tractors do go too quickly through godshill, but it might not have been the drivers fault, all it takes is some stupid person to cut up the driver to cause a load shift, Hope the driver makes a recovery. to be continued
These trailers were only designed for a farmer to go from field to field with products, they were never designed for full on highway use, which they most commonly are. a lack of visability of load inside the trailer means a driver cannot tell when too much load has shifted until a rollover situation. how can the industry change this situation? a trailer with at least 4 wheels 1 in each corner as a mandatory requirement. so who do I blame, those further up the food chain so to say. because without proper training, and supply of the right equipment for the job, drivers are only partially responsible.