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Pedestrian hurt after motorbike accident in Southampton city centre


A PEDESTRIAN and a motorcyclist have both been taken to hospital after sustaining injuries from a collision in Southampton city centre this afternoon.

A 55-year-old woman is being treated for serious injuries at Southampton General Hospital after she collided with a 33-year-old male on a motorcycle at around 2pm.

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The motorcyclist has also been taken to hospital although the extent of his injuries are not yet known.

Roads around the incident, which happened at the junction of New Road and East Park Terrace have now been re-opened after they were closed for almost two-hours this afternoon.

Hampshire Police are now appealing for anyone who may have witnessed the incident close to the main campus of Southampton Solent University.

Anyone with information should contact Hampshire police on 101 or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.



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G0Rf, SaaaafHampton says...
5:52pm Wed 10 Mar 10

it was a brand new "10" plate harley davidson bike that crashed

Reality-man, Southampton says...
10:00pm Wed 10 Mar 10

G0Rf wrote:
it was a brand new "10" plate harley davidson bike that crashed
Cheers for that - what colour was it??!!

Pixelle, says...
12:08pm Thu 11 Mar 10

Reality-man wrote:
G0Rf wrote:
it was a brand new "10" plate harley davidson bike that crashed
Cheers for that - what colour was it??!!
It was blue and chrome, from what I could see.

jimbobbo, Southampton says...
1:42pm Thu 11 Mar 10

Motorcyclists are a liability. Bikes consist of 1% of all road traffic but are involved in 20% of all road accidents. I've seen 3 motorcycle related accidents which all involved another vehicle (I was in one of them). In each case the accident could have been avoided had the motorcyclist not been doing something wrong.

annoyed01, Southampton says...
1:57pm Thu 11 Mar 10

jimbobbo wrote:
Motorcyclists are a liability. Bikes consist of 1% of all road traffic but are involved in 20% of all road accidents. I've seen 3 motorcycle related accidents which all involved another vehicle (I was in one of them). In each case the accident could have been avoided had the motorcyclist not been doing something wrong.
Blah, blah, blah. Same old bullsh*t moronic driver such as yourself come out with any time something involving a bike happens. I hope you have sufficiant back up for your statistics, I think if you look a bit deeper I think you'd find most accidents involving motorbikes are down to the car drivers.

zigga, Eastleigh says...
11:06pm Thu 11 Mar 10

I ride a motorcycle and I have people in cars, pull out in front of me all the time! I have had so many pedestrians walk out in front even though they have seen me coming. They don't understand that 200kg of metal travelling at 30-40mph could do more damage to them, than a car would. People need to learn to look. I know there a plenty of idiotic motorcycle riders, but majority have much better road sense than most car drivers.

jimbobbo, Southampton says...
1:36pm Tue 16 Mar 10

annoyed01 wrote:
jimbobbo wrote:
Motorcyclists are a liability. Bikes consist of 1% of all road traffic but are involved in 20% of all road accidents. I've seen 3 motorcycle related accidents which all involved another vehicle (I was in one of them). In each case the accident could have been avoided had the motorcyclist not been doing something wrong.
Blah, blah, blah. Same old bullsh*t moronic driver such as yourself come out with any time something involving a bike happens. I hope you have sufficiant back up for your statistics, I think if you look a bit deeper I think you'd find most accidents involving motorbikes are down to the car drivers.
Yes, hitting motorcyclists who are travelling on the inside of traffic too fast.

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Ambulances at the scene this afternoon. Picture by Echo reader. Ambulances at the scene this afternoon. Picture by Echo reader Nathan Thompson.

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