**A woman has been killed and two other people injured when they were hit by a police motorcycle while watching the Tour de France cycle race, police said.**The woman was struck as she crossed the road in a village along the route of the 14th stage of the race, near Colmar in north-eastern France.
Police said the driver fell off the bike, which ran into the crowd.
An accident on the Tour in 2002 claimed the life of a child who was hit by a car from the publicity caravan.
Saturday’s accident happened in the town of Wittelsheim, near the 38.5-km (24-mile) mark, on the route of the three-week cycle race that covers 199km (124 miles) from Colmar to Besancon.
“A woman crossed the road and was hit by a Republican Guardsman on a motorcycle,” Alain Fontaine, a spokesman for the gendarmerie, told Reuters news agency.
“Then the motorcycle slid and hit one or two more people,” he added.
Both are expected to survive the accident, police said.