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Tragedy marred the open­ing of the East­er In­ter­na­tion­al Grand Prix last night as vet­er­an rid­er Collin Wil­son died fol­low­ing a freak ac­ci­dent at Skin­ner Park, San Fer­nan­do.

Wil­son was com­pet­ing in a Mas­ters 40-49 event when he col­lid­ed with an­oth­er cy­clist and crashed in­to a met­al fence.

The hor­rif­ic in­ci­dent re­sult­ed in the race be­ing im­me­di­ate­ly ter­mi­nat­ed as medics rushed to Wil­son, who was bleed­ing pro­fuse­ly.