Van overturns

Van overturns in Stornoway road crash

7 May 2019

A man was taken to hospital after a Ford Transit van flipped and landed on its side on Perceval Road in Stornoway today.

Leaking fuel from the vehicle sparked safety fears.

The male driver managed to scrambled out of the flipped vehicle.

A road sign on a metal pole was brought down in the collision.

The driver - the sole occupant of the van - was assisted by fire-fighters at the scene before paramedics arrived.

An ambulance transported him to the nearby hospital.

The overturned vehicle blocked the carriageway on Perceval Road North near to the Fusion roundabout.

A Police Scotland spokesman said: “We received a report of an one-vehicle road traffic collision at 11.18am.

“The Ford Transit vehicle overturned and the driver was taken to hospital.”

Two Stornoway fire crews were speedily on the scene, having mobilised twenty minutes earlier for a separate car crash in nearby Matheson Road. When the second alert came in they immediately headed to the scene.

Fire Scotland local group manager Gavin Hammond said: “There was one occupant inside the vehicle who actually manage to get themselves free.

“We gave him on-scene medical attention while awaiting arrival of the ambulance service and they were then relayed to hospital for precautionary checks.”

Mr Hammond said there was a leakage of both petrol and diesel from fuel from the van and also contained inside the vehicle itself.