Crash sparked by a car driving on course at Étoile de Bessèges forces Maxim Van Gils to abandon

Chaotic scenes from a crash on stage 2 at Étoile de Bessèges have emerged that show the driver of a vehicle sparked a crash in the peloton.

The driver was on the course facing the race with the oncoming peloton in sight and had to reverse the car backwards off the course onto a side street to get out of the way.