{"id":550221,"date":"2026-04-25T16:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/550221\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T16:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:07:11","slug":"two-arrested-after-fatal-crash-on-northam-bridge-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/550221\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested after fatal crash on Northam Bridge, Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Police and emergency services were called to the incident involving a car and a motorcycle on Northam Bridge in Southampton at 1.20am this morning.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The incident involved a silver VW Polo and a white Yamaha YZF.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The rider of the motorcycle, a 17-year-old from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyecho.co.uk\/news\/district\/fareham\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fareham<\/a>, was taken to the hospital but subsequently died from his injuries.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  His next of kin have been informed, police say.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Two men, a 17-year-old and a 29-year-old from Southampton, who were in the VW Polo, have been arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Both remain in custody at this time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A police spokesperson said: &#8220;We would like to thank motorists for their patience as the Northam Bridge was closed for several hours before it could be reopened.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We would like to speak to any witnesses and in particular anyone with relevant dash cam footage of the incident or the moments leading up to it.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Anyone with information is asked to call 101 quoting reference 44260192933.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Information can also be reported via the Hampshire Constabulary website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police and emergency services were called to the incident involving a car and a motorcycle on Northam Bridge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-550221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}