A car narrowly avoided hitting a building on the St. Mary’s Hospital site after crashing through a wooden fence this morning (Sunday).
Police are currently present at the Forest Road junction of the wider St Mary’s Junction in Newport where a Peugeot 206 CC crashed.
It is assumed that the driver of the vehicle did not cross the right-hand bend on the forest road, which resulted in the car climbing the sidewalk and driving head-on through a wooden fence – stopping just a few meters from the corner of a building.
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No one was injured in the collision with a single vehicle and no arrests were made.
The car is now being recovered by Stag Lane Motors and a lane closure is in place to facilitate this.
Isle of Wight NHS Trust staff investigate the damage to the border fence.
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