I feared my kids would be KILLED in catastrophic crash after English cyclist Matt Walls smashed into us in crowd
THE family involved in the horror cycling crash at the Commonwealth Games feared for their lives.
The shocking accident came in the men's scratch race when England's Matt Walls collided with other riders at high speed and flew over the barriers and into the crowd.
Cycling fan Hugh Colvin was spectating alongside his two children aged five and seven, and a few family friends when Walls catapulted over the barrier.
Colvin's wife Laura was not at the velodrome but she described the terror: "What has been hard for us to get our head around is how close this came to being a complete catastrophe.
"And how close our two younger children came to being seriously injured or killed. And that has been the main thing we've had to reflect on over the last few days."
Colvin himself said to the : "It all happened so incredibly quickly at the speed the cyclists were going.
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"You can see the trajectory of the bike, it came through, grazed my daughter's shoulder, and one of the photos you can see we are obviously underneath the wheel.
"Looking back at the photos it must have been within centimetres, millimetres, of our heads."
Early reports from a Birmingham 2022 spokesperson said three riders went to hospital and two injured fans only required treatment by medics on site.
However, one of the family friends did go to hospital, Mrs Colvin said: "He suffered a laceration to the bone which the hospital have described as being like a machete injury.
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"He's still waiting for surgery. It is the start of a long road to recovery for him."
She also revealed that Walls video-called her children to help them come to terms with what happened.
The Colvin family praised the response from the medics and all those who helped them in the aftermath of the crash.
They now want to see a change in safety rules so that: "no family is ever going to find themselves in our situation."
Cycling legend Sir Chris Hoy agreed saying that with bikes travelling faster now than ever before as a result of improved bike design, some safety measures need to be updated.
Laura Kenny agreed admitting she considered withdrawing from the Commonwealth Games over safety fears before she went on to win a gold medal.
Walls, 24, tweeted about his injury reassuring fans: "I’ve somehow come away with no serious injures just a few stitches and pretty banged up."
