Kate Middleton, Prince William Express Sorrow For Woman Hit By Their Convoy

Kate Middleton and Prince William’s convoy was involved in a London crash with an elderly woman prior to the Order of the Garter ceremony in Windsor on Tuesday. 

A police motorcycle from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s convoy which consisted of a Range Rover and four bikes from a police escort hit an 83-year-old woman named Irene Mayor, according to The Telegraph . The motorcycle was reportedly driving against traffic to clear cars. 

Mayor was later taken to the hospital and remains in “serious but stable condition,” the Independent Office for Police Conduct by the Metropolitan Police told the Telegraph. 

William and Kate were only informed of the accident when they reached the ceremony in Windsor on Tuesday. They later sent Mayor flowers with a handwritten note, The Sun reported, and offered to visit her in the hospital, if she wished. 

“The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were deeply concerned and saddened to hear about the accident on Monday afternoon,” a spokesperson for Kensington Palace said of the accident.