POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a three vehicle crash.

Officers were called to the A32 at 3.40 this afternoon after a male motorcyclist was badly injured.

He was taken to Southampton hospital by air ambulance after the incident at Lower Farringdon.

Police are asking for anyone who saw the crash, which took place near the junction of the A32 and Woodside Lane, to call 101 quoting Operation Helix.

They are also advising drivers that the A32 is shut at the junction with the A31 at the Chawton roundabout.