The spectator who caused a massive pile-up during the first stage of the Tour de France has been arrested after presenting herself at a police station, a source close to the investigation told Reuters.
The spectator, a 30-year-old French woman, is in custody at a police station in Landerneau, Brittany, the northwest French region where the Tour de France, the world's biggest cycling event, held its first four stages.
The spectator is accused of involuntarily causing injury and putting the life of others at risk.
On Saturday, German cyclist Tony Martin was sent tumbling when he rode straight into a cardboard sign being held out by a fan looking the other way at a television camera, creating chaos with 47 kilometres left of the stage. The crash held up the race for about five minutes.
The incident and a series of crashes on the second and third stages of the race angered teams and led to the entire peloton staging a symbolic protest, briefly halting at a pre-arranged point, at the start of yesterday's fourth stage.
