Video emerged over the weekend of the moment Etixx-Quick Step’s Mark Cavendish crashed out of the Aviva Tour of Britain after colliding with a parked car.

It was shot by a spectator close to the top of the climb of Gun Hill during Stage 5 of the race from Stoke-on-Trent to Nottingham, where Cavendish’s team mate Matteo Trentin was first across the line.

Madison-Genesis rider Tom Stewart, riding in Cavendish’s slipstream, is unable to avoid colliding with him, though he is soon back on his bike

Spectators then shield Cavendish and warn other riders and team staff of the crash, ahead of the race doctor’s arrival.

Although Cavendish was riding on the far right of the road, and therefore close to the line of cars, it may have been a gust of wind that actually pushed him into the car he hit.

Initially there were fears that Cavendish had seriously injured his shoulder, as happened when he crashed in Harrogate on the opening day of the Tour de France in 2014.

But on Friday evening, his Etixx-Quick Step team said he had suffered nothing worse than a contusion to the shoulder, and he has been named in Great Britain’s team for next week’s UCI Road World Championships in Richmond, Virginia.