A MOPED rider was left with serious injuries after his bike slid under a car transporter on a busy Southampton road.

The rider was left with neck injuries as a result of the accident, which happened at 7.30am in Redbridge Road, Millbrook.

Police and paramedics were on the scene within minutes and two lanes of the carriageway were closed for the man to be treated and taken to hospital.

According to a spokesman for Hampshire Ambulance Service, the man, who is thought to be in his 20s, came off his bike before it went under the wheels of the car transporter.

He was taken to Southampton General hospital suffering from neck injuries that were not thought to be life-threatening.