Police are renewing an appeal for witnesses after an elderly woman received serious injuries in a road traffic collision on the Isle of Wight.
An 83-year-old woman from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight was driving a silver / light blue coloured Renault Clio towards the West Wight on the A3054 main road yesterday afternoon (Monday, August 17).
Shortly before 3.00pm, her car left the road and collided with a tree near the village of Shalfleet.
The woman received a serious head injury, which was classed as potentially life-threatening by emergency services.
Sergeant Paul Bailey of Hampshire Constabulary’s Isle of Wight Roads Policing Unit said: “I would like to thank other motorists who stopped after the collision to give police information. However, officers remain keen to hear from anyone who may have witnessed the actual collision, or who may have seen the car being driven before it went off the road. The silver Renault Clio, which has HW04 registration plates, was travelling west on the A3054 main road from the Newport area towards Shalfleet.”
Anyone with information about the collision or the car’s movements shortly before 3.00pm on Monday afternoon is asked to contact the Isle of Wight Roads Policing Unit at Shanklin Police Station by phoning 101 and quoting Operation Striven. Mini-Com users can call 01962 875000. From outside Hampshire and the Isle of Wight call 0845 045 45 45. Information can be given anonymously by phoning the Crimestoppers charity on 0800 555 111.