A MAN died in a car crash near Tidworth last night.

Police were called shortly before 6pm to a two-vehicle collision involving a Peugeot 206 and a Ford Kuga on Perham Down Road, Great Shoddesden, near Tidworth.

A 22-year-old man from Tidworth who was driving the Peugeot 206, died at the scene.

A 32-year-old man from Wallingford, Oxfordshire, the driver of the Ford Kuga, was uninjured.

The road was closed in both directions last night as part of a police investigation and to allow recovery of the vehicles.

Hampshire Police is appealing for witnesses to the collision which happened near the Hampshire/Wiltshire border.

Anyone with information is asked to call Sergeant Jon Bates on 101, quoting Operation Element, or via the website hampshire.police.uk/internet/do-it-online/online-forms/message-for-officer.html.

Alternatively call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.