A3055 crash on the Isle of Wight on 12 December 2010 at 15:15 involving a Rover 25
A Rover 25 crashed on the A3055 on the Isle of Wight at 15:15 on Sunday 12 December 2010. The 85-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2010
- Sunday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 25
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.65733, longitude -1.15736, in the PO36 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sandown. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sandown North, Isle of Wight, PO36 8HE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened on the Isle of Wight
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2010440521849
- Council area
- Isle of Wight
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3055
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 25
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 85 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,396 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 85, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 25)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2010440521849 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Isle of Wight road accident statistics for 2010.