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A car from Theresa May's convoy was involved in an accident during her visit to France and Belgium before Armistice Day.
She was in a convoy with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel when the collision occurred.
Two victims are thought to have been injured in the collision and the two prime ministers are safe.
One of the motorcyclists had to perform an emergency maneuver, cutting off one of his colleagues, according to local reports, and the two men fell off their bikes.
It is described as an accident and does not seem to be related to terror.
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Ms. May and Mr. Michel came from a commemoration at Mons Symphorien Military Cemetery, Bergen.
Mr. Michel stopped the convoy to see how much the police had been injured, according to De Standaard.
Downing Street confirmed that Ms. May had not been involved in the accident, but said she would make no comment.
She quoted poems from the First World War, thanking the fallen troops for being "unshakeable against unexpected chances" as she welcomed the centennial of the Armistice.
Theresa May visits war cemeteries in Belgium and France alongside French President Emmanuel Macron and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel.
Beginning in Mons on Friday morning, Ms. May and Mr. Michel were escorted by the representative of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to St Symphorien Military Cemetery by Liz Sweet.
The German army installed the cemetery as a final resting place for British and German soldiers killed at the Battle of Mons.
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The two men were greeted by a Royal Regiment of Fusiliers honor guard and listened to the sound of The Last Post before a minute of silence.
Dressed in a black coat and boots lacquered up to her knees, Ms. May was gloomily laying wreaths on the graves of Private John Parr of the Middlesex Regiment, who died on August 21, 1914 – the first British soldier killed in the conflict – and the last to be killed, the soldier George Ellison of the Royal Irish Lancers, died on the Western Front on November 11, 1918 at 9:30, before the entry into force of the armistice at 11 o'clock.
In the note left by Private Parr's resting place, Ms. May cited a line of wartime poetry – The Soldier, written by Rupert Brooke.
She wrote: "There is in this rich land a richer hidden dust."
The sonnet was written by Brooke, an officer of the Royal Navy, while on leave at Christmas, and was part of a collection of works entitled 1914, published in January 1915.
Brooke never knew of front-line combat and died of poisoning by blood on April 23, 1915 after being stung by a mosquito while traveling to Gallipoli. He was buried on the island of Skyros.
On the grave of Private Ellison, also inscribed in a blue pen on a Downing Street card bearing the garland of poppies, Ms. May wrote: "They were inflexible until the end, without anything being counted … we will remember them. "
This came from another poem written by Laurence Binyon and published in September 1914, which is often quoted in the offices of Remembrance Sunday.
During the brief visit, she and Mr. Michel then met with British and Belgian members serving in the armed forces.
On leaving, she thanked the organizers for this moving visit.
She will travel to France this afternoon and will meet President Macron in Albert, a city in the heart of the Somme, which suffered a major bombing during the conflict.
Leaders will attend a private meeting and a working luncheon before heading to the nearby Thiepval memorial on the site that bears the names of more than 72,000 members of the fallen Armed Forces and holds a commemoration. annual event for the missing of the Somme.
A wreath combining poppies and blueberries, the two national emblems of the memory of Great Britain and France, is in progress.
Ms May said the visit would be an opportunity to reflect on the time spent by countries fighting side by side in Europe, but also to plan for a "common future based on peace, prosperity and friendship".
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