Emergency services are attending a road traffic collision on Whiterails Road between Newport and Wootton this afternoon (Friday), where a car has rolled onto its roof.
Police, fire and ambulance crews are all on scene near to Butterfly World having been alerted to the crash at around 15:40.
The road has been closed in both directions between Wootton Common roundabout and Blacklands Lane.
The Isle of Wight Ambulance Service is tending to those involved – with fears that the occupants of the car may be trapped.
2 fire appliances from Shanklin and Freshwater are on scene.
UPDATE @ 16:58 – It has been confirmed that 1 vehicle – a Jaguar XF – with 4 people onboard has been involved in the incident.
2 females have sustained injuries and have been left in the care of paramedics.
The crash occurred at 15:27.
UPDATE @ 18:11 – Police are describing the single vehicle crash as serious and say the road will remain closed for the foreseeable.
It’s known that 2 wheels have been ripped off the Jaguar, which has come to rest on its roof to the west of the entrance to Solent Grange.
UPDATE @ 21:27 – The road is due to reopen shortly following recovery of the vehicle.
Debris on the carriageway is being cleared ahead of the road reopening in both directions to all traffic.
UPDATE SATURDAY – A 29-year-old man from Wootton has been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and driving whilst unfit through drugs.
Not again. Hope all are ok but it does beg the question, how?
It’s about time the Island tackled speeding on the Island.
Vehicles do not roll on roofs if travelling at the correct speed.
IoW cars should be ‘ballasted’ in all the footwells and on the chassis, as the normal rules of gravity don’t seem to apply on the island?
Another idiot island driver. All drgged up the lot of you.
Not my comment, but I can’t disagree with you, island drivers will never change their way, and will always defend idiots….
Another driver from Burley no doubt.
Must have bounced off a pothole
Love this bit of road normally can get a ton plus on the straight bit.Driven along here many times but never on my roof slow down you muppets before someone gets injured.
I stayed at the riding centre a while back and listened to the idiots speeding along that road at night. A ton plus. Why be proud of that?
He’s looking for a reaction that’s why
Another brainless idiot then. Maybe if you had been cut out of your car badly injured you may have a different perspective????
Island echo how did you think it was appropriate to approve the above comment??
And you call other people “muppets”. Pot, kettle?
The problem is the island roads aren’t long enough or smooth enough to get up to 85 mph for the flux capacitor to kick in to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity for time travel so you just end up hitting a pot hole and land on your roof
Well, the only future they will get, is aventual death….
If you know where to drive there are loads of roads on the island where you can easily go over a ton to say a ton thirty.However I totally agree potholes are a problem.Last week did Chale to Freshwater Tesco and back again in just under 40 minutes.
My mum may be a witness depending on what car was involved if anyone would like to contact her. She has phoned 101 and they are not answering
The police are involved, they may ask for witnesses at a later date and provide a crime reference number. I would tell her to refrain from publicly giving out information as it causes people to speculate and assume facts that aren’t true.
My mum had given her details to the police
Laura I’ve passed your mums details to the police this morning. Thanks for contacting my daughter yesterday
It seems to be a very serious accident possible a fatality as the road will remain closed for the foreseeable future. So why do we have idiots saying the cause of the accident when they don’t know they want to zip it
…but you are also speculating by mentioning ‘fatalities’. Same thing…
another zero gravity hot spot
It’s not speculating to say high speed was an issue here, two wheels ripped off speaks for it’s self. To suggest why it was speeding would be speculation. Let’s hope the two ladies recover.
Idiots its obvious they were speeding and not paying attention ,the driver should loose their licence permantly,a car doesnt roll on its own !!!
Speed = crashes – Never known so many car’s rolling on their roofs, joke!
Sadly the drivers tend to walk away from these accidents unscathed with the passengers left with significant injuries. Hopefully the driver is appropriately ostracised and pilloried by those around him for driving like a jerk.
How i mean how do you achive this ??nearly every day a car rolls its undeliveable..
Why is that policeman so scruffy? He looks like that one who does the fake wrestling when he’s on duty…..