Pictured: Irene Mayor, 83, who was sent spinning to the ground and is now having surgery on a reportedly broken pelvis, after being hit by a royal motorcycle police outrider
A grandmother who is fighting for her life in hospital after suffering a broken pelvis, two broken arms, a broken leg and a dangerous head injury when one of the royal family’s armed motorbike police gurgaon escorts crashed into her might not recover, her family fear.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct has opened an investigation after widowed charity worker Irene Mayor, 83, was sent spinning to the ground by an officer escorting the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge from London to Windsor, who clipped her with his wing mirror while driving on the wrong side of the road.
Today Mrs Mayor’s brother said he had retained lawyers to ‘look after’ his injured sibling, while her sister blasted police outriders for driving too fast and told of her fears for her sister’s health.
Wiping tears from her eyes, Joyce Shore, 86, said: ‘Irene may not get through this.She is just an ordinary lady who minds her own business and then this happens… The police outriders have to slow down.
‘My sister is lying in a hospital bed and she could have been killed. She could so easily have been killed.’
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have said they are ‘deeply concerned and saddened’ and have sent flowers.They are understood to be waiting for an opportunity to visit Mrs Mayor in hospital.
Royal protection policies that the Special Escort Group police rider will have been following when the accident took place will be reviewed.
Today witnesses have described how the elderly pedestrian was left with a bleeding head wound when the the bike, which was ‘not going fast’ but was on the wrong side of the road, hit Mrs Mayor.
An air ambulance arrived within 20 minutes but hovered overhead unable to land on the road.It set down in a nearby car park and a team of six medics treated Mrs Mayor before she was taken to hospital by road ambulance – almost 40 minutes after the accident, according to one witness.
Pictures of the aftermath of the collision show a white police motorcycle on its side on the wrong side of the road at a pedestrian crossing on Upper Richmond Road, where Irene was walking near her home in East Sheen.
Kate and William did not see the crash, royal sources have said, and were swept through Richmond because it is standard police procedure for any royal convoy to drive on even in the event of an accident.
The accident will be investigated by the Independent Office for Police Conduct and Scotland Yard said last night that Irene was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
Mrs Mayor is a widow after losing her husband Walter and dedicated herself to charity work through her local church, where she is still a regular in the congregation.
Six doctors and paramedics gathered around Mrs Mayor to treat her injuries before she was taken to hospital after the crash
This is the police outrider’s bike lying on its side after striking Irene Mayor, 83, while clearing traffic for Prince William and Kate’s convoy
The incident took place as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were heading from London to Windsor.It is believed to have involved one of their police motorcycle outriders
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge travel in a Range Rover escorted by police motorcycle outriders and royalty protection officers
Pictured: William and Kate at Windsor Castle yesterday after their convoy hit an 83-year-old grandmother, leaving her seriously injured
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