Motorcyclist airlifted to hospital after Southwick collision

Emergency services were called to a collision between a motorbike and a car eastbound on the Old Shoreham Road at 5.15pm on Wednesday, April 12, a police spokesperson said.

The motorcyclist, a 41-year-old Worthing man, was taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital by air ambulance with a broken leg, confirmed the spokesperson.

The car driver, a woman aged 42 from Southwick, was uninjured, the spokesperson said.

The road was closed for nearly two hours for the vehicles to be recovered.

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