Andersons Quality Butchers Berwick Bandits 17 Isle of Wight Wightlink Islanders 19 (Premier League) (Abandoned after 6 heats – Result does not stand)

The prize for the winner was the League’s number one slot and as a result racing was keen and tight, with some great speedway, but come Heat Seven events took a shocking turn.

As the tapes went up Scott Smith and Paul Fry locked machines going into the opening bend leaving the pair unable to control the outcome.

With both machines at full-bore, they smashed headlong into the first bend fencing, shattering the barrier to smithereens, sending Smith deep into the no-mans- land area, but Fry, and Smith's machine (Fry's remained in no-man's land) kept on going, flying over the remains of the fence and into the supporters’ area, Smith's bike cartwheeling over the fence.

Fry ended up against the stadium’s perimeter wall, some 50 feet from the track, but the flying bike struck two very unlucky young supporters walking past.

Fry ended up with knee ligament damage and a couple of broken toes, and Smith, like Fry was well shaken up and shocked at the severity of the incident and alos received ligament damage.

Both stricken supporters required instant medical attention and two NHS service ambulances were called in, arriving within 5 minutes, and as a result the authorities were effectively in charge of the event.

Treating the scene as a regular accident scene, the local police called in their incident unit as the supporters were taken into the ambulances where medics tended to their injuries.

After consultations between the paramedic teams, the police, the promotion and the referee it was agreed that the only sensible decision would be for the event to be abandoned at this stage, and as the announcement was made it received a round of applause from the crowd who were themselves coming to terms with the scenes and the shock and disbelief caused.

The result does not stand and a rescheduled date will be arranged soon.

Berwick Promoter Peter Waite said: “Above everything else, we at Berwick Speedway have the two injured fans and their families uppermost in our minds and wish them all the very best for a very swift recovery.

“Any referral to results or potential results is immaterial although we will be preparing early for the hard trip to Somerset on Friday.”

Berwick had no planned home meeting for next Saturday, the 17th of May, stating several weeks ago that this would be a blank Saturday.

Andersons Quality Butchers Berwick Bandits 17 1. Adrian Rymel © R,2* = 2+1 2. Norbert Magosi 2,2,3 = 7 3. Michal Makovsky 1,1* = 2+1 4. Benny Johansson – Rider Replacement 5. Tero Aarnio 1 = 1 6. Scott Smith ® 3,0 = 3 7. Adam McKinna ® 2*,0 = 2+1

Isle of Wight Wightlink Islanders 19 1. Krzysztof Stojanowski – Rider Replacement 2. Cory Gathercole 3,3 = 6 3. Glen Phillips 3,0 = 3 4. Paul Fry 2* = 2+1 5. Jason Bunyan © 1,3,1 = 5 6. Andrew Bargh ® 0,0 = 0 7. James Holder ® 1,2* = 3+1