Sydney, Nov. 16 -- Nine people have been hospitalized after they were injured when a vehicle crashed through a fence during a race event north of Sydney.
Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) on Sunday said in a statement that the vehicle was competing in a race when it crashed through a fence and hit a grandstand in the small town of Walcha, 320 km north of Sydney, at around 6:15 p.m. on Saturday.
Spectators rendered assistance until ambulance paramedics arrived and transported seven men and two women, all aged between 20 and 75, to a nearby hospital.
Of those nine people, a 54-year-old man was critically injured and three others were seriously injured and were transferred to major hospitals overnight.
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