‘Awful, freak accident’: Spectator remains in hospital after Tour Down Under crash

A woman from NSW, visiting the cycle race in South Australia, has been hospitalised after multiple cyclists crashed into a barricade spectators were standing behind.

Video on social media taken by another spectator shows four cyclists hitting the barricades at high speed on the last corner of the street circuit race.On Sunday morning, SA Premier Peter Malinauskas called it an “awful, freak accident”.

A race statement said organisers are in contact with the spectator’s family and are offering support. The Adelaide parklands circuit was the same one that was used to launch the first Tour Down Under in 1999.

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