Taxi and bus collide

A taxi driver was taken to hospital with chest and ribs injuries after a collision involving a bus in Southampton on Saturday night.

The 50-year-old Smith's man was yesterday in King Edward VII Memorial Hospital's intensive care unit, where his condition was described as stable.

Police say details on the accident are unclear, but it happened on Middle Road, near the junction with Tribe Road No. 3, at about 10.50 p.m., and left the front of the taxi extensively damaged and the back of the bus moderately damaged.

The 44-year-old Sandys woman driving the bus was not injured and there were no reports of injuries to passengers.

Two hurt in bike crash

On Friday night, two young men were taken to KEMH after falling off a bike when the rider lost control and collided with a sidewalk.

The rider, a 21-year-old Warwick man, suffered cuts to his leg after being thrown over an embankment, while his 20-year-old pillion passenger, also from Warwick, cut his left ankle and knee when he fell to the road.

That incident happened as the bike travelled west along South Road, Paget, near its junction with Stovell Lane, at 9.55 p.m on Friday.

The driver was arrested on suspicion of impaired driving, but passed the alco-analyser test.

Inquiries into both incidents are underway.