Earlier, police put the number of injured at nine. They said the ages of the injured bystanders ranged from 20 to 75, while a critically injured person was a 54-year-old man. An investigation was under way, they said.<\/p>\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
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
The Council said it would work with authorities to “examine the circumstances which led to the accident”. <\/p>\n
Giving any comments before concluding the inquiries would be “inappropriate”, it said.<\/p>\n
In a post on Facebook, Moylan thanked emergency responders and other bystanders for their “swift and incredibly professional work at the scene”. <\/p>\n
“My thoughts are with everyone affected,” he wrote.<\/p>\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
“Such a sad end to such a great event,” he wrote.<\/p>\n
The Walcha Motorcycle Rally describes itself as a “grassroots event for motorcycle enthusiasts”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier, police put the number of injured at nine. They said the ages of the injured bystanders ranged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-265708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}