VIDEO: Footage of Worthing kitesurfer Lewis Crathern's crash

By The Newsroom
Published 10th Feb 2016, 12:25 BST
Updated 17th Feb 2016, 06:50 BST
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Lewis Crathern
FOOTAGE has emerged of the incident that resulted in a Worthing kitesurfer being placed in a medically induced coma.

A YouTube video of the accident shows Lewis Crathern, the former British kitesurfing champion, crashing into the water during a ‘megaloop’.

It is not the most comfortable viewing, but we are sharing it as some readers have been asking about it. We will leave it at readers’ discretion whether they choose to watch.

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Lewis, 31, who was the freestyle British champion from 2005 to 2008, was hurt while competing in the semi-finals of the Red Bull King of the Air competition at Big Bay in Blouberg, South Africa, on Sunday.