Ambulance staffs kept busy during Australian bike ride

Can you imagine two heart attacks and 25 injuries requiring attention from ambulance staffs during a single bicycling event?

Organizers of the Around the Bay in a Day bicycle ride in Melbourne, Australia, say that's not unexpected, considering they put 14,000 cyclists on the road for rides ranging from 26 to 155 miles.

The bike ride raises about $500,000 every year for The Smith Family foundation, which raises money to improve education for disadvantaged Austalian children.

The grueling one-day ride around Port Phillip Bay is organized by Bicycle Victoria. Explains bike club head Harry Barber: “When you've got 14,000 people, all sorts of things can happen.”

One heart attack victim was given CPR by a passing motorist who had stopped; the other suffered head injuries when he fell off his bike during his heart attack. One was in his 50s, the other in his 40s, reported News.com.au.