Police have confirmed an Isle of Wight crash, which saw a pensioner's house left in ruin and three people involved on the run exactly a year ago (September 10, 2022), remains unsolved.
A huge amount of structural damage was caused to the two-storey home of Dave Tombleson when a Honda Civic left Blackwater Hollow – the main road from Blackwater to Rookley – and ploughed into it via a barrier and garden fence at around 5.30am.
Two passengers, a man and a woman, were seen beside the wreckage when Mr Tombleson, 77, came outside to see what happened before they fled along with the already disappeared driver.
The accident left Mr Tombleson's home partially in ruins and required urgent work to shore up his living room from possible collapse.
On the morning of the crash, Mr Tombleson told the County Press: "I heard screeching around the corner, then all of a sudden this car came crashing through a barrier, a fence, then through the front of my house.
"I was having my breakfast down there. If I had been there five minutes earlier, I would have been showered in glass and other materials.
"It has left the house in a terrible condition and a huge repair bill. It is devastating.”
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary have confirmed the investigation has been ‘filed pending any further or new information’, with no one found or arrested in relation to the crash.
A spokesperson said: “Our reasons for this have been shared with all parties involved.”
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