Former Top Gear horde Richard Hammond has been flown to sanatorium after a pile-up while filming in Switzerland.
Former Top Gear horde Richard Hammond has been flown to sanatorium after a pile-up while filming in Switzerland.
The 47-year-old was on a use run for a competition in an electric automobile for Amazon Prime uncover The Grand Tour.
Mr Hammond “climbed out of a automobile himself before a automobile detonate into flames”, a uncover pronounced in a statement.
Co-host Jeremy Clarkson tweeted that it was a “most frightening” collision he had ever seen though pronounced Mr Hammond, who fractured a knee, was “mostly OK”.
The show’s matter pronounced Mr Hammond had been concerned in a “serious crash” after completing a Hemberg Hill Climb in Switzerland, where a competition takes place on Sunday.
He had been pushing a “Rimac Concept One, an electric super automobile built in Croatia, during filming for The Grand Tour Season 2 on Amazon Prime, though really opportunely suffered no critical injury”.
Mr Hammond was “conscious and talking” after a crash, a uncover said, and had been flown to sanatorium in St Gallen “to be checked over”.
“Nobody else was in a automobile or concerned in a accident, and we’ d like to appreciate a paramedics on site for their quick response.
“The means of a pile-up is different and is being investigated, ” a matter added.
The Hemburg organisers pronounced a central competition would take place as designed on Sunday.
A matter said: “The automobile left a lane and landed in a meadow.”
They combined that rescuers had been “very fast” to strech a scene.
The pile-up comes 11 years after Mr Hammond scarcely died when he mislaid control of a Vampire dragster while filming for Top Gear.
He was in a coma for dual weeks after a collision during Elvington Airfield, nearby York.
Mr Hammond, who had been pushing during speeds of adult to 288mph (463km/h) , suffered mind injuries though done a full recovery.
A “catastrophic disintegration” of a jet car’s front tyre, substantially caused by an intent like a nail, caused a crash, a BBC news after concluded .
In early Mar 2017, Mr Hammond pronounced he had depressed off a motorbike “many times” while filming an part of The Grand Tour in Mozambique and “banged my head”.
But he also pronounced he was “fine”, nonetheless Mr Clarkson told a Sun journal that Mr Hammond had “hurt himself utterly badly”.
