A 21-YEAR-OLD motorcycle rider was airlifted to hospital with "serious life changing injuries" after a head-on crash today (Tuesday). 

It happened at 7.45am and involved a black BMW Z4 and a Moto Roma motorcycle.

The BMW was driving along Marlborough Road towards Pewsey from Everleigh when it was involved in the head-on crash with the motorcycle, which was travelling in the opposite direction. 

PC Neil Hardman, of Wiltshire Police Tri Force Road Policing, said: "The 21-year-old rider of the motorcycle has sustained serious life changing injuries and was airlifted by Great Western Air Ambulance to Southampton General Hospital."

The 50-year-old woman driver of the BMW was uninjured. 

The road was closed for about four hours for collision investigation work to be carried out. 

Anyone who witnessed the incident is asked to call PC Hardman on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.