White Van Man Caught having a Long Read on the Busy M3 Motorway
White Van Man Caught having a Long Read on the Busy M3 Motorway A man has been caught driving along the M3 in Hampshire reading a National newspaper at forty miles and hour. One shocked driver saw the driver heading along the motorway at 40mph reading his newspaper. The heating engineer in his white van […]
Busy Ryde route to be improved in night-time scheme
Busy Ryde route to be improved in night-time scheme One of the main routes into Ryde on the Isle of Wight is to be upgraded shortly under the Highways PFI. Island Roads is to resurface a stretch of Binstead Road from Ringwood Road roundabout and the whole of Queens Road to Fiveways Junction in work […]
Teenager assaulted outside busy Shopping Centre
Teenager assaulted outside busy Shopping Centre Police are seeking witnesses to an assault that took place in the The Meads Shopping Centre area of Farnborough, just after 4pm on Monday, April 25. The victim, a 16-year-old girl, was sat in the seating area outside Starbucks in the shopping centre, when an unknown man approached her […]
Isle of Wight Highway teams kept busy despite milder winter
Isle of Wight Highway teams kept busy despite milder winter Around 550 tonnes of salt have been used during the winter season to treat the Island’s highways network. The salt is applied in ‘pre-wet’ form to ensure it starts to work on the road surface immediately and was deposited during 23 treatment runs carried out […]
Forthcoming utility works will cause travel delays on Busy Island Road
Forthcoming utility works will cause travel delays on Busy Island Road Island Roads would like to advise motorists that the next phase of major pipe replacement work by Southern Water at Northwood on the Isle of Wight from next week will cause traffic delays. From Tuesday (29) two-way lights will be in place as Southern […]
Woman rushed to hospital after ambulance answering 999 call crashes with vehicles on busy Southampton Road
Woman rushed to hospital after ambulance answering 999 call crashes with vehicles on busy Southampton Road A woman was rushed to hospital with injuries after an ambulance answering an emergency call in the West of Southampton crashed with her vehicle on a busy road in Southampton. Emergency services were called to Oakley Road in Southampton […]