Mantshwabisi spectators a menace to competitors
Friday, June 29, 2018
Mantshwabisi, as local fans commonly call the event, remains the most attended sporting event in the country with close to 200,000 spectators attending the three-day spectacle. Last weekend, South African biker, Bernhart Hofman-de Vries who was competing in the High School category, was hit by a spectator’s vehicle on Saturday morning. The vehicle entered the terrace and hit the biker just before noon leaving the young biker with a broken femur while his bike was crashed. Hofman-de Vries is hospitalised in Johannesburg.
Speaking to Mmegi Sport yesterday, Botswana Motor Sport vice president, Vincent Crosbie stated that spectators have been a menace to the competition as they put both their lives and those of the bikers in danger.
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