AN 80-YEAR-OLD Shanklin man is recovering this evening after losing control of his silver Ford Fiesta.
Paramedics from IW ambulance service assisted in freeing the trapped pensioner as temperatures plummeted to below zero this evening (Friday November 27)
A paramedic opened the boot of the trapped car and the pensioner clambered over the back seats after his vehicle was wedged in a hedgerow
The man was treated at the scene suffering from hypothermia and shock before being transferred by ambulance to St Mary’s Hospital, Newport.
The Gazette has learnt that the elderly driver may of had a medical episode, causing the car veer off the road and come to rest in the hedgerow.
No other vehicles were involved in the road traffic collision. Officers from the Shanklin Road Policing Unit (RPU) closed the road for a short period of time whilst vehicle recovery specialists from Bartletts recovered the vehicle using winching equipment.
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