Two women are in hospital with serious head injuries after a freak accident on a bike path near 17th Ave. and Deerfoot.

Police Duty Inspector Paul Stacey tells 660News, two women joggers were running southbound when a cyclist coming in the opposite direction crossed the centre line and hit one of the women.

“The cyclist flew off her bike, she flew over a guard rail landed on her head on some rocks. Luckily she was wearing a helmet. Nonetheless she got a pretty good head injury out of it. She was taken to the hospital in non-life threatening condition,” said Stacey.  “The jogger ,she suffered a pretty good gash to her head as well and she was also transported to hospital in non-life threatening condition.”

The incident happened shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday afternoon.