THERESA May has been involved in a car crash after a vehicle smashed into her convoy in Belgium as the PM visits war graves ahead of Armistice Day.
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| Theresa May was in Belgium visit war graves ahead of Armistice Day |
Two police motorcycles have been reported to have been knocked over by a car – with both riders being taken to hospital.
The bikers were acting as outriders for Mrs May’s convoy as she travelled alongside the Belgian leader Charles Michel.
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| Theresa May quoted war poetry on her tribute to the fallen |
Daily Star Online understands the PM's car was ahead of the crash in the convoy – and she escaped with incident, which has been described as an "accident".
The two leaders were on their way to meet French president Emmanuel Macron across the border in Albert, France.
It is scare for the leaders as Europe prepares to remember war dead this Sunday on Armistice Day – 100 years since the end of World War 1.
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| Theresa May, Charles Michel and war graves representative Ros Kelly |
May was in Belgium to mark Sunday's centenary of the end of the 1914-18 war and later travelled for further ceremonies in France.
Mr Michel climbed out of his car and knelt on the road to check the police officer’s condition.
The PM always travels with a security team ready to spring into action should danger confront them.
Two years ago German chancellor Angela Merkel was involved in a scare when a black 4x4 attempted to join her motorcade in the Czech Republic.
Mrs May quoted First World War poetry while she thanked fallen troops for being "staunch to the end against odds uncounted" as she paid her respects to mark the centenary of Armistice.
The leaders had private meeting and a working lunch before departing for a wreath-laying ceremony at the nearby Thiepval Memorial – the site which bears the names of more than 72,000 members of the armed forces who died in battle and holds an annual commemoration for the Missing of the Somme.
A wreath combining poppies and le bleuet, the two national emblems of remembrance for Britain and France, was made for the occasion.
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| he PM spent the morning visiting war graves in Belgium |
Mrs May said the visit would be a chance to reflect on the time the countries spent fighting side by side in Europe but also to look ahead to a "shared future, built on peace, prosperity and friendship".
At the grave of Private Ellison, in blue pen on a headed Downing Street card attached to the garland of poppies, Mrs May wrote: "They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted ... We will remember them."
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| Theresa May and Emmanuel Macron are due to pay tribute to soldiers |
In the note left by the resting place of Private Parr, Mrs May quoted a line of wartime poetry – The Soldier written by Rupert Brooke.
She wrote: "There is in that rich earth a richer dust concealed."
The sonnet was written by Brooke, an officer in the Royal Navy, while on leave at Christmas and formed part of a collection of work entitled 1914 which was published in January 1915.
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