Traffic chaos was caused after a collision involving three vehicles on Medina Way, Newport, shortly after 3.30pm this afternoon (Tuesday January 25).
Three elderly people in their 70s, travelling in a convertible Morris Minor, were extracted on spinal boards with neck and back injuries and were taken the short distance to St Mary’s Hospital in a ‘serious’ condition, along with a female teenager, riding a Vespa scooter.
It is believed a silver BMW, travelling on the northbound carriageway, suddenly changed direction and crossed the central reservation, colliding head-on with the Morris Minor.
The BMW came to rest only inches away from a lorry that had stopped to assist a broken-down motorist.
The driver of the broken-down car, a 35 year old mum from Cowes, who had three children on board, spoke exclusively to ‘The Gazette’ of her shock…
” I had broken down and a man in the lorry had stopped to help me push my car out of the way. I saw the BMW flying through the air - It was like something out of an action film. If I hadn’t of moved my car, I would have been in the middle of it all”.
Police have closed Medina Way in both directions and are diverting traffic through Dodnor Industrial Estate and through the town.
PC Martin Norman from the Shanklin Road Policing Unit said: “Motorists are advised to avoid the area as the road is likely to be closed for a number of hours”.
Crash investigators are now on the scene at Medina Way to investigate fully what caused the collision to occur.
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