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Footage of television presenter Richard Hammond's high-speed smash in a jet-powered car that left him critically-injured will be shown on TV for the first time.
The BBC programme Top Gear co-presenter said he thought he was going to die after he lost control of a Vampire Dragster at 288mph and the car flipped over while he was filming a feature for the show on an RAF airfield near York last September.
Hammond, known as "Hamster" to his legion of fans, suffered brain damage and was in a coma but is expected to make a full...
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Pictures of the high-speed crash involving Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond have been published for the first time since the accident.
The 36-year-old crashed a jet-powered dragster at 288mph while filming a stunt for the BBC TV show, at Elvington airfield in York last September.
The photos, which feature in Top Gear magazine, show a tyre bursting and the dragster skidding before flipping over.
"I will have taken a few deep breaths on the start line as the engine roared and my thumb hovered over the afterburner switch," he told Top...
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Strolling in the sunshine with his wife and daughter it is hard to believe that only five weeks ago Richard Hammond was fighting for his life.
The Top Gear star showed he was continuing to go from strength to strength as he went on his first family outing.
An onlooker said: "He looked amazing. He looked fighting fit and as if he was back to his old self again."
Hammond, who almost died after a high-speed car crash, took a shopping trip close to his home in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire with his wife Mindy, 35, and one of his young...
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Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has suffered a "significant brain injury" after crashing a jet-powered car at speeds of up to 300mph during filming.
Doctors at Leeds General Infirmary said they were "reasonably optimistic" the 36-year-old would make a good recovery.
The BBC, which is likely to face close scrutiny, has begun an inquiry. The police and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are also investigating.
Event organisers insisted that proper safety precautions were taken.
Hammond's wife Mindy was at his bedside in the...
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Richard Hammond is seriously ill in hospital after a crash in a rocket-powered car while filming for the programme.
The 36-year-old presenter was taken by air ambulance to Leeds General Infirmary's neurological unit.
A spokesman for the hospital said Mr Hammond was "stable".
Mr Hammond had been driving a dragster-style car capable of reaching 300mph at the former RAF airfield in Elvington, near York.
Former firefighter Dave Ogden, who runs private firm Event Fire Services, was one of the first people at the scene of the...
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