"I came back through to the front and my mum, who works here too, said to me "can you go round, a customer said there's been a bad accident." I shot out of the garage and I saw a gentleman sitting on the pavement. He was going a bit blue, his colour was changing. The wing mirror was cleaned off the van so it must have been at force (that he was hit). "I put my arm around him and said "come on back to the car." He was in pain and said "I think I've broken my ribs."" Wiggins" wife Catherine and their two children Ben and Isabella, were said to have rushed to the scene after the accident, which happened at around 6pm. Mrs Wiggins was overheard saying to her father, who arrived later: "It's Bradley - he's been hit." In a statement on its website, Team Sky said: "We can confirm that on Wednesday evening Bradley Wiggins was involved in a road traffic accident whilst riding his bike near his home in Lancashire. He is being kept in hospital overnight for observation but the injuries he has sustained are not thought to be serious and he is expected to make a full and speedy recovery. We will announce more details in due course. Lancashire Constabulary said the van driver was uninjured and had not been arrested. A Lancashire Police spokesman said: "Police were called to the scene of a road traffic accident at Crow Orchard Road in Wrightington at about 6pm. A cyclist has been involved in a collision with a white Vauxhall Astra van. His condition is described as stable. North West Ambulance Service said the cyclist was taken to hospital in Preston with suspected broken ribs. Wiggins became a British poster boy for the London Games in the summer and won the Olympic time trial - his fourth Olympic gold medal to date and his seventh in total after those won in Sydney, Athens and Beijing. His triumph at the 2012 Olympics came just weeks after he became the first Briton to win the Tour de France, a victory that earned him a huge army of fans in the UK.