BBC reconstructs Tour de France fan's horror bike crash

Teenager's cycle crash during last year's Tour de France, which saw him airlifted to hospital, is subject of BBC's Countryside 999 programme

A reconstruction has been made showing how a teenage cyclist fell more than five metres down a riverbank whilst watching the Tour de France.

Henry Wood, 14, was in Yorkshire last July with his mum and step-dad watching the Grand Depart when he lost control of his bike.

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Chris Marshall-Bell

A freelance sports journalist and podcaster, you'll mostly find Chris's byline attached to news scoops, profile interviews and feature writing across a variety of different publications. He has been writing regularly for Cycling Weekly since 2013.


Previously a ski, hiking and cycling guide in a number of places, but mostly in the Canadian Rockies and Spanish Pyrenees, he almost certainly holds the record for the most number of interviews conducted from snowy mountains.


He lives in Valencia, Spain.