Cyclist injured by fireworks

Posted Aug 16, 2011 8:57 pm.

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Cochrane RCMP are looking for witnesses after lit fireworks were thrown out of a moving vehicle into a group of three cyclists.

The incident happened around 10 a.m. on Sunday on eastbound Highway 1A a few kilometres east of the Grande Valley Road near Cochrane.

One of the cyclists was sent to hospital with a fractured arm after hitting the ditch as a result.

RCMP believe there were several other motorists in the immediate area that would have witnessed the event and are asking anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers.

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