Saturday, July 18, 2009

Tour de France spectator killed

Scene of the accident

A blackamoor has been killed and digit another grouping injured when they were impact by a personnel cycle patch watching the Tour de author wheel race, personnel said.

The blackamoor was struck as she decussate the road in a village along the line of the 14th stage of the race, nearby Colmar in north-eastern France.

Police said the driver lapse off the bike, which ran into the crowd.

An happening on the Tour in 2002 claimed the life of a child who was impact by a automobile from the publicity caravan.

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Saturday's happening happened in the municipality of Wittelsheim, nearby the 38.5-km (24-mile) mark, on the line of the three-week wheel vie that covers 199km (124 miles) from Colmar to Besancon.

"A blackamoor decussate the road and was impact by a politico Guardsman on a motorcycle," Alain Fontaine, a spokesman for the gendarmerie, told Reuters programme agency.

"Then the cycle slid and impact digit or digit more people," he added.

Both are due to endure the accident, personnel said.
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