Motorbike rider hospitalised with 'serious injuries' following collision in Leigh Park

By Freddie Webb
Published 16th Mar 2023, 11:27 BST
Updated 16th Mar 2023, 11:30 BST
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A motorcyclist has been hospitalised with ‘serious injuries’ following a collision in Leigh Park.

Police were called to the scene in Botley Drive by the ambulance service just after 12.30pm yesterday. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary said a motorbike rider, a man in his 20s, ‘was taken to hospital with serious injuries’.

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He currently remains at the medical facility for treatment. Police sergeant Paul Stenton, of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary roads policing unit, said: ‘We would like to speak to anyone who witnessed this incident or the moments directly before or after it.

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A motorbike rider was hospitalised following a collision in Botley Drive, Leigh Park. Picture: Google Street View.A motorbike rider was hospitalised following a collision in Botley Drive, Leigh Park. Picture: Google Street View.
A motorbike rider was hospitalised following a collision in Botley Drive, Leigh Park. Picture: Google Street View.

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‘In particular, we would like to speak to anyone with CCTV or dash-cam footage relevant to our investigation.’ Anyone with information is advised to call 101, quoting 44230104018, or to submit a report online. A police spokesman said officers responded to reports of an assault in Middle Park Way yesterday, with an air ambulance present at the scene.