Fatal B3330 crash on the Isle of Wight on 7 January 2018 at 11:20 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3330 on the Isle of Wight at 11:20 on Sunday 7 January 2018. The 84-year-old male driver was killed.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 7 Jan 2018
- Sunday, 11:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.72578, longitude -1.16099, in the PO33 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ryde. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ryde North West, Isle of Wight, PO33 2JP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened on the Isle of Wight
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018440008248
- Council area
- Isle of Wight
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3330
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 November 2025.
Serious
Honda NSC crash on the B3330 on the Isle of Wight, 14 November 2025
12 m awayRef 2025440515752
Slight
Piaggio ET2 crash on the B3330 on the Isle of Wight, 12 September 2001
13 m awayRef 2001440ZD1000
Slight
Volvo 240 crash on the B3330 on the Isle of Wight, 25 November 1994
16 m awayRef 1994440ZD0977
Slight
Car crash on the B3330 on the Isle of Wight, 15 April 2010
18 m awayRef 2010440151908
Slight
Car crash on the B3330 on the Isle of Wight, 12 October 2010
18 m awayRef 2010440443409
Slight
Car crash on the B3330 on the Isle of Wight, 28 March 2006
18 m awayRef 2006440116854
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,834 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
FatalMale, aged 84, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
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 2018440008248 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 2018.