Spectator's footage captures speed, sheer scale of Dauphiné crash | Video

As this footage shows, the bunch was hurtling along when the crash occurred, with riders falling like skittles

This footage, recorded by a spectator on the roadside, captures the speed the bunch was traveling at on very wet roads when the mass pile-up occurred on today's stage 5 at Critérium du Dauphiné (2.UWT).

The stage - some 167km from Amplepuis to Saint-Priest - was halted when the largescale incident - effectively two crashes one after the other - occurred about 20km from the finish.

And after being stopped for about 20 minutes the race restarted, but was neutralised to the finish, with the stage and general classification result canceled for today.

About 50 riders in total came down, on a stretch of waterlogged road, including race leader Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep), Primož Roglič (Bora-Hansgrohe), Tao Geoghegan Hart (Lidl-Trek), Tim Wellens (UAE Team Emirates), Mikel Landa (Soudal-QuickStep) and Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates).

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While they were all able to pick themselves up to continue, the same could not be said for Visma-Lease a Bike duo Dylan van Baarle and Steven Kruijswijk. Continuing what has become a crash-related nightmare season for the Dutch team, both riders left the crash scene in ambulances.

And due to the sheer scale of the first aid operation that had to swing into action where the crashes occurred, the racing had to be halted for the day.

“In accordance with the jury of commissaires of the UCI it's been decided that due to the fact there are no ambulances can take care of the security of the riders because they are all busy going to different hospitals, the race will be neutralised,” said the race organisers.

“The race will be neutralised and the peloton will ride all the way to the finish line under the escort of the Garde Republicaine. The times will not be taken into account, there will not be a winner for today's stage.”

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