Britain’s Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins was expected to leave hospital yesterday after being hit by a car while riding his bike near his family home.

Lancashire Police said the 2012 Olympic Games time-trial gold medallist was in a “stable” condition after suffering broken ribs and a wrist injury in the accident on Wednesday evening, adding that the injuries were not life-threatening.

The 32-year-old was thrown off his bike when hit by a car believed to have pulled out of a petrol station in Wrightington, near his family home in Eccleston, northwest England.

Police said they would interview the driver – a local woman who was unhurt in the incident.

Pieces of wrecked wing mirror from the car were still lying at the scene yesterday morning.

The accident took place just months after Britain’s first ever winner of cycling’s most prestigious race called for drivers and cyclists to “co-exist” on the roads following a fatal accident outside London’s Olympic Park.

Officials did not disclose which hospital he was being treated in.

Wiggins, who broke his collarbone in the 2011 Tour de France, had been due to take part in a number of interviews to promote his autobiography “My Time”, which was published yesterday.

Meanwhile, the British cycling team’s head coach suffered bleeding on the brain in a separate road accident yesterday, the team said.

Shane Sutton was “involved in an incident this morning on the A6 near Levenshulme in Manchester”, British Cycling said.

Australia-born Sutton, 55, led Britain’s cycling team to a string of medals at the London 2012 Olympics, including Wiggins’s gold in the time-trial.