Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond critically injured

[Sal UK]

Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has been critically injured in an accident while filming an edition of the programme.

Hammond, 36, was unconscious at the scene but was reported to be regaining consciousness when he arrived at hospital.

He was taken to Leeds General Infirmary following the incident at an airfield near York.

A BBC spokeswoman said: "The incident happened quite recently and the focus of our attention is on Richard at this stage.

"We will make further details known as soon as they are available."

Inspector Mike Thompson, of North Yorkshire Police, said officers dealt with an incident at the airfield north-east of York.

He said: "At 5.45pm this evening we received a report via the fire service of a male person trapped in what was described as an overturned jet car which had been driven on the airfield.

"The male occupant has received serious injuries and has been airlifted to hospital at Leeds."

No further details were available at this time.


Sad I really like watching the show, It happend when he was driving a Jet Propelled Car accross an AirField for the Top Gear TV Show.

I hope he pulls through.

Ill give an Update at 11pm gmt, When the Hospital Report is due.

[Lucky]

RIP, he died

[Sal UK]

Originally posted by Lucky
RIP, he died

Do Brown Stuff always fall from your mouth?


He aint Dead he is still critical. Not much from the hospital report..

*New Report* he is now out of critical and in Stable condition.

[.enfo.]

yay
nice to hear his condition is improving, hope he gets better soon

[Steve]

good job Lucky is not a news reporter!

hope he gets better soon

[Lucky]

WTF!

On a different site it said "another celeb deth" so i belived it


/agrreed at the news reporter tho

[SilentTrigger]

Damn I hope he will recover quickly, I love that show!

[Terry]

fingers crossed for him... he and topgear rule!

[Sal UK]

Hammond suffers 'significant brain injury'

Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has suffered a "significant brain injury" in a high-speed crash, but doctors are "reasonably optimistic he will make a good recovery".

Hammond was rushed to hospital after crashing a jet-propelled car at 280mph.

He was attempting to break the land speed record at an airfield near York when the car span out of control and crashed.

The bid was being filmed for the BBC motoring show which the 36-year-old co-presents.

Hammond was unconscious at the scene but was reported to be regaining consciousness when he arrived at Leeds General Infirmary following the incident at Elvington airfield.

Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson has travelled to Leeds to visit his co-presenter.

He said: "I would just like to say how heartened Richard will be when I tell him just how many motorists and truck drivers on my way here wound down their windows to say they were rooting for him."

Dave Ogden, a safety officer at the airfield, said the crash had happened on the last of the day.

He said: "We were down there with Top Gear who were filming him trying to break the British land speed record.

"On the previous run the car had just gone over 300mph but I am not sure if it had broken the record.

"They had just done one more run and were planning to finish when it veered off to the right.

"One of the parachutes had deployed but it went on to the grass and spun over and over before coming to a rest about 100 yards from us."

He said his crew and an ambulance that was already on the airfield rushed over and found the car upside down and "dug in" to the grass.

A BBC spokeswoman said: "The incident happened quite recently and the focus of our attention is on Richard at this stage.

"We will make further details known as soon as they are available."

A bit more of the story

[.enfo.]

shocking

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never believe wot the media says..

i was shocked but glad hes stable

[col_jpalsPHIL]

Well guys, that's what you get when you push yourself to the limits. you're already considered half dead when you're doing the xtreme....

but i hop he'll get well soon....

i love that show thou i never watch that too often. especially the episode where he drives that small car with an airplane jet attached. his face scrambled by the wind blowing upfront.

[.enfo.]

looks like a bad crash, but he's improving!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5372890.stm

[SilentTrigger]

Steps are always a good thing. I'm glad he's recovering