See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred SourceBy DAVID OLASEINDE Published: 20:55 BST, 27 August 2026 | Updated: 20:59 BST, 27 August 2026
This is the moment an Audi travelling on the wrong side of the road collided head-on with another car in a devastating crash. Two men have been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, with the driver of the other car sustaining serious but not life-threatening injuries.Police saw the black Audi A3 speed away from them before the accident and later found the wreckage of the car after it smashed through a brick wall.The collision occurred at around 2:18pm in Southampton, Hampshire, on Shirley Road, at the junction between Waterloo Road and Roberts Road.A large police presence was seen at the scene with a cordon being put in place.One person who witnessed the crash said: 'The sound was absolutely horrendous.'I've never seen anything like it in all my years living here.'An 83-year-old woman said: 'If those cars had gone any further, my neighbour's flat would've gone. The Corsa driver suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries, while an Audi occupant sustained minor injuries A black Audi A3 allegedly drove on the wrong side of the road in Southampton before colliding head-on with a Vauxhall Corsa Two men were arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving. A large police cordon was put in place at the scene'Have they got no sense? After the news the other day about what happens when you drive on the wrong side of the road.'A spokesperson for Hampshire Police said: 'At about 2.20pm officers spotted a black Audi A3 in Blechynden Terrace which was then quickly driven away.'Officers then came across the vehicle again at the junction of Shirley Road, Roberts Road and Waterloo Road, after it had collided with a Vauxhall Corsa.'The driver of the Corsa sustained serious but not life-threatening injuries, while one occupant of the Audi sustained minor injuries.'Two men have been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.'Crashes involving dangerous driving have been on the rise, as this comes after five young men in a Volkswagen Passat ended up driving the wrong way along the A66 in Middlesbrough after a police pursuit and crashed head-on into a police car, killing everyone in both vehicles.All seven people died. The two officers, PC Matthew Blades, 37, and PC Tom Clough, 38, and the five occupants of the Passat, Cole Worthy, 17, Theo Rae, 17, Makai Saddington, 18, Michael Cahill, 23, and Jacob Matusiak, 23. The crash in Middlesbrough came just days after five teenagers died in a head-on collision on a motorway in Ireland.The masked youngsters were in a stolen BMW travelling the wrong way down the M9 in County Kildare at 2am.Police had tried to pull over the car but it sped off the wrong way down the M9 to avoid a stinger device that had been deployed to stop the car.The occupants of the other vehicle – three sisters and a seven-year-old boy – suffered serious injuries in the crash and remain in hospital.
