Two policemen were hospitalised after they were involved in a high speed crash while escorting Prince Charles and Camilla Parker to the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony at Gold Coast.
Two policemen were hospitalised after they were involved in a high speed crash while escorting Prince Charles and Camilla Parker to the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony at Gold Coast.
According to Daily Mail Australia, the bike-riding policemen, who were part of the motorcade escorting the Royals to Carrara Stadium for the ceremony on the Gold Coast, smashed into each other at 'high speed' on the Gold Coast Highway at Southport at 7.30pm, according to Queensland Police.
A 27-year-old man was taken to Gold Coast University Hospital, and another man, 42, was taken to hospital as a precaution. The families of the policemen injured in the crash were notified.
No-one else was injured in the collision, and the Forensic Crash Unit is investigating the incident.
Earlier, Commonwealth Games organisers have defended Camilla for looking jaded during Wednesday's opening ceremony at the Gold Coast, saying the Duchess of Cornwall was "shattered" from her travel schedule rather than disinterested in the show.
The ceremony at Carrara Stadium garnered mostly positive reviews in local media but many reports focused on the British royal family member's wavering attention.
Pictures of Camilla thumbing through a programme in the VIP box between her husband Prince Charles and Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull were widely circulated on social media, prompting some users to criticise the 70-year-old for failing to show more appreciation.
Commonwealth Games Federation President Louise Martin said the Duchess was exhausted, rather than bored.
"She was jet-lagged, she'd just got off the plane in the morning," Martin said at a media briefing on Thursday.
"She did full duty right through and the only time she got a break was when she sat in the car from Brisbane down to here.
"Then she got 20 minutes to change before she went to another reception. When you're back to back like that, coming off a long-haul flight... and she literally hates flying. She really wanted to go to sleep."
With Inputs from Reuters
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