A 20-year-old man sustained an overlapping dislocation of the pubic symphysis following a low-velocity side-to-side compression injury. Such injuries are rare in the literature. This case, where the pubis was locked into the obturator foramen, may be the first of its kind to be reported. The pubic symphysis was successfully reduced by levering, with difficulty, the locked pubic body out of the left obturator foramen. As the reduction was unstable, the pubic symphysis was fixed with 2 reconstruction plates. The patient was able to mobilise fully after 3 months and returned to work. At 18 months' follow-up he was able to void urine normally after urethral repair.
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