Top Gear Presenter Richard Hammond Injured

From Yahoo.co.uk

Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has been injured in an accident while filming an edition of the programme, the BBC said.
Hammond, who often drives high-performance cars as part of presenting the show, has been taken to hospital 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 were dealing with the incident at the airfield north-east of York.
He said: "At 5.45pm (on Wednesday) 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."
He said no further details were available at this time.

From BBC.co.uk

Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond is in a critical condition in hospital after a crash in a jet-powered car while filming for the programme.
The presenter, 36, was taken by air ambulance to a Leeds hospital which has a special neurological unit.
A North Yorkshire Ambulance Service spokesman said he was unconscious when they got to the scene but was regaining consciousness at the hospital.
A BBC spokesman confirmed the presenter had been injured during a shoot.

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"Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond is in a critical condition in hospital after a crash in a jet-powered car while filming for the programme."

Thats all we know so far. Lets just hope he's ok. Who would drive the dampervan?

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You can accuse a person of just about anything and get away with it, as long as you don't call them a lousy lover or bad driver. -Jackie Stewart

oh no, i hope he isn't in danger or anything. one of the nicest blokes on tv.

EDIT: sorry, didn't notice the other thread with more info was posted before this one.

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO please let him be ok he's such a great guy

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He is a great guy, and the three of them make Top Gear what it is as a team... Get better soon Richard!

Just looked on here, clicky!...

And it says "died September 20, 2006"!

So hope it isn't true!

OMG @#$%& OFF! aint true

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It might be, read the "Death" bit.

Oh dear. Please be false, please be false.

there aint no death bit?

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It has been deleted, it said he had gone into cardiac arrest and they could not get him back at 20:49. Hope it's not true.

hamster!!!

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I would doubt that wiki posts could be relied upon that soon after the supposed time of the incident, especially before any major news site. Anyone can write anything on wiki. Lets just hope he's ok.

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SKEL

You can accuse a person of just about anything and get away with it, as long as you don't call them a lousy lover or bad driver. -Jackie Stewart

skel is correct, wikipedia is open source and possibly one of the worst places to get your information from, particularly for coursework as i found out for my AS hehe

anywho, hope he recovers soon, sounds like a nasty incident

When I first read a story I didn't realise it was quite so critical and my first thoughts were the impact that it might have on the show Feel quite bad now.

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SKEL

You can accuse a person of just about anything and get away with it, as long as you don't call them a lousy lover or bad driver. -Jackie Stewart

Lets hope he makes a speedy recovery.

Get well soon Hammond

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Merged the threads. Fingers crossed for him folks, such a great guy and presenter.

I'm hearing rumours that he's in a coma. absolutely nothing solid to back it up mind. Let me check news 24.

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SKEL

You can accuse a person of just about anything and get away with it, as long as you don't call them a lousy lover or bad driver. -Jackie Stewart

Been out for the night watching the footie. Just returned and found out about this. Hope he is OK as can be and gets well soon. I agree with the others, the Top Gear team is just brilliant.