A SUSPECTED drink driver was arrested after crashing into another car at a junction in Oakridge.
The two-car crash happened just before 7pm yesterday, Saturday, May 25, at a junction on Oakridge Road.
A 20-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of drink driving and "failing to stop after a road accident."
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The two cars involved were a black Dacia Duster and a silver convertible BMW, which had driven into the rear end of the Dacia.
A police spokesperson told the Gazette: "We were called shortly after 7pm yesterday (Saturday 25 May) to a report of a two-vehicle collision on Oakridge Road.
"A 20-year-old man from Basingstoke was subsequently arrested on suspicion of driving a motor vehicle when alcohol level above limit and driver of a vehicle fail to stop after a road accident.
"He remains in police custody at this time.”
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