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Nine people were injured, one critically, after a car crashed into a crowd during a demolition derby in southeastern Australia, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The car had been taking part in a race in the town of Walcha on Saturday night when it drove through a fence and hit the grandstand, New South Wales police said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The race, part of the annual Walcha Motorcycle Rally, had been a demolition derby – a type of motorsport where drivers ram their vehicles into one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brendan Moylan, a member of parliament for Northern Tablelands, the region where Walcha is located, said on social media on Sunday that nine people remained in hospital and “all are now recovering”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police said ages of the injured bystanders ranged from 20 to 75, while the critically injured person was a 54-year-old man. An investigation was underway, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police said they were told that the 27-year-old driver of the car had been involved in a collision on the track right before it drove into the fence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a statement published on the Walcha Motorcycle Rally’s Facebook page, the Walcha Council said that it was “shocked and stunned at the unfortunate accident”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Council said it would work with authorities to “examine the circumstances which led to the accident”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Giving any comments before concluding the inquiries would be “inappropriate”, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a post on Facebook, <\/strong>Moylan thanked emergency responders and other bystanders for their “swift and incredibly professional work at the scene”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “My thoughts are with everyone affected,” he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Barnaby Joyce, former deputy prime minister and incumbent New England lawmaker, wrote on Facebook that his “thoughts, prayer and hopes” were with those injured in the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Such a sad end to such a great event,” he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Walcha Motorcycle Rally describes itself as a “grassroots event for motorcycle enthusiasts”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC: Nine people were injured, one critically, after a car crashed into a crowd during a demolition derby in southeastern Australia, police said. The car had been taking part in a race in the town of Walcha on Saturday night when it drove through a fence and hit the grandstand, New South Wales police said in a statement. The race, part of the annual Walcha Motorcycle Rally, had been a demolition derby – a type of motorsport where drivers ram their vehicles into one another. Brendan Moylan, a member of parliament for Northern Tablelands, the region where Walcha is located,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52058,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52056\/revisions\/52058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}