A 43-year-old Southampton man has been fined $1,500 after the trailer attached to his truck came unhitched and collided with an oncoming motorcyclist.

In April last year, McNeil Wilson was charged with causing actual bodily harm to Harold Talbot by recklessly driving on July 7, 2012.

In Supreme Court yesterday, Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves also disqualified Wilson from driving all vehicles for 15 months, and ordered 12 demerit points against his licence.

The accident occurred on Somerset Road around 6.15pm near Heydon Gardens when a trailer carrying a jet ski broke loose and collided with Mr Talbot, travelling in the opposite direction.

The victim, a 51-year-old Sandys resident, sustained a fracture to his right femur, a fracture to his tibia and fibula, multiple metatarsal dislocations and lacerations to forehead.

Wilson admitted that when securing the trailer to his truck, he did not have the safety pin and instead used a chain to secure the trailer, which prosecutor Loxly Ricketts said amounted to negligence and was not a deliberate action.

“I would just like to say if I could go back to this day I would have done something different,” said Wilson yesterday.

“I would have went and found a bolt to put in the hitch. I would have done everything differently. I am real sorry for my actions. I would like to apologise to the family face-to-face but apparently they don’t want to hear it. I am just sorry for what happened and can say this won’t happen to me again.”