A MAN has been charged after a car crash involving a bollard last week.

At 9.42pm last Wednesday, January 12, police responded to a report of a crash on Main Road, Dibden.

It is said that a blue Volkswagen Polo had left the road and collided with a bollard.

The driver was uninjured but was taken to Southampton General Hospital as a precaution.

Now a man has been charged in connection with the incident.

Alexander Gary King, 25, of Pinewood Crescent, Hythe, was charged with driving a motor vehicle when alcohol level is above the limit.

He is due to appear at Southampton Magistrates Court on February 10.