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Det slutade med en fruktansvärd krasch i 450 kilometer i timmen.
Tillståndet uppges nu vara mycket kritiskt för den brittiske motorjournalisten Richard Hammond."
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Top Gear star 'serious but stable' after crash
By Adam Fresco and agencies (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, … _1,00.html)
Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson was this morning joining family and friends at the hospital bedside of his fellow presenter Richard Hammond, who was badly hurt in a high-speed car crash during filming yesterday.
Doctors confirmed that the television star's health had shown some improvement overnight, after he was airlifted to Leeds General Infirmary in a critical condition.
A hospital spokesman said Hammond's condition was now judged to be serious but stable after the accident, which happened during an apparent attempt to break the British land speed record.
Hammond, 36, was taken to hospital by helicopter after the Vampire rocket powered dragster he was driving crashed at the disused Elvington airfield near York yesterday, where much of Top Gear's filming is done.
A man believed to be the presenter’s brother told reporters outside the hospital the family had had a "difficult night" and were very tired. He said his brother had regained consciousness at some point but did not want to go any further into his condition.
The hospital spokesman said: "There’s been some improvement overnight. At the family’s request we won’t be giving out any more information at this time."
Jeremy Clarkson arrived at the hospital to visit Hammond at around 10.15am. “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,” he said.
A police spokesman said that he understood the presenter had had a scan and that the next 24 hours would be crucial.
A former firefighter who was one of the first on the scene following the crash said that Hammond had been travelling at speeds close to 300mph before the accident.
Dave Ogden, who runs private firm Event Fire Services, said that the crash had happened on the last "run" of the day. Mr Ogden was helping to provide emergency cover at the airfield in case of an accident when he saw the crash.
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 hthat is crew, and an ambulance that was already on the airfield, found the car upside down and "dug in" to the grass.
Mr Ogden said he felt for a pulse and heard Hammond, who was unconscious, breathing, before the emergency crews worked together to turn the car the right way up. They had cut Hammond free, placed him in a neck brace and put him on a stretcher before the air ambulance arrived.
"He was regaining consciousness at that point and said he had some lower back pain. But he was drifting in and out of consciousness a little bit," Mr Ogden said.
Hammond would have been strapped so tightly into his Vampire jet car with a six point safety harness that he could barely move, to protect him from such a disaster, an expert said today. He would also be sitting in a roll cage for his high speed drive.
"The Vampire is a pretty robustly built car, it has a very, very strong rollover structure. You are strapped in so tightly that you almost feel like you can’t move. You want to be as anchored as possible," said David Tremayne, a speed record historian.
"The roll cage would be around his head. His head would have been pretty well protected which is another thing in his favour.
"It is safe to say that, as far as the car is concerned, all the sensible safety procedures would have been taken."
The current British land speed record is held by Colin Fallows, from Northampton, in his dragster Vampire, which reached 300.3mph in 2000.
Hammond, who often drives high-performance cars as part of presenting Top Gear, was born in Birmingham but lives just outside Cheltenham with his wife Amanda and two children.
Michael Harvey, the editor of Top Gear magazine, told BBC News 24: "Clearly at those kinds of speeds the tiniest little thing has to go wrong and the speed obviously massively exaggerates the consequences of anything going wrong.
"This wasn’t a high performance car, this wasn’t a road car, this was a rocket-powered dragster which bears absolutely no relation to the kind of cars which are the main fodder of the Top Gear programme - this was a car that clearly contained its own risks."
He added: "I know every single precaution will have been taken but something clearly absolutely unaccounted for has gone wrong, and Richard has unfortunately suffered the consequences."
James May, who co-presents the popular motor show with Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson, said that he was devastated to learn his "old mate" had been injured.
His agent, Annie Sweetbaum, said: "James is absolutely devastated, he’s heard the news but doesn’t know how bad he is. He’s really shocked, his words to me were ‘He’s such a good mate, I’m so upset’.
"He said as soon as he’s allowed, he wants to go and see Richard."
A spokesman for the Health and Safety Executive said that an inspector would be visiting the airfield today to make initial inquiries over the crash.
Det slutade med en fruktansvärd krasch i 450 kilometer i timmen.
Tillståndet uppges nu vara mycket kritiskt för den brittiske motorjournalisten Richard Hammond."
Mer på:
http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/s … 51,00.html
Hoppas han klarar sig
Uppdaterat:
Top Gear star 'serious but stable' after crash
By Adam Fresco and agencies (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, … _1,00.html)
Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson was this morning joining family and friends at the hospital bedside of his fellow presenter Richard Hammond, who was badly hurt in a high-speed car crash during filming yesterday.
Doctors confirmed that the television star's health had shown some improvement overnight, after he was airlifted to Leeds General Infirmary in a critical condition.
A hospital spokesman said Hammond's condition was now judged to be serious but stable after the accident, which happened during an apparent attempt to break the British land speed record.
Hammond, 36, was taken to hospital by helicopter after the Vampire rocket powered dragster he was driving crashed at the disused Elvington airfield near York yesterday, where much of Top Gear's filming is done.
A man believed to be the presenter’s brother told reporters outside the hospital the family had had a "difficult night" and were very tired. He said his brother had regained consciousness at some point but did not want to go any further into his condition.
The hospital spokesman said: "There’s been some improvement overnight. At the family’s request we won’t be giving out any more information at this time."
Jeremy Clarkson arrived at the hospital to visit Hammond at around 10.15am. “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,” he said.
A police spokesman said that he understood the presenter had had a scan and that the next 24 hours would be crucial.
A former firefighter who was one of the first on the scene following the crash said that Hammond had been travelling at speeds close to 300mph before the accident.
Dave Ogden, who runs private firm Event Fire Services, said that the crash had happened on the last "run" of the day. Mr Ogden was helping to provide emergency cover at the airfield in case of an accident when he saw the crash.
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 hthat is crew, and an ambulance that was already on the airfield, found the car upside down and "dug in" to the grass.
Mr Ogden said he felt for a pulse and heard Hammond, who was unconscious, breathing, before the emergency crews worked together to turn the car the right way up. They had cut Hammond free, placed him in a neck brace and put him on a stretcher before the air ambulance arrived.
"He was regaining consciousness at that point and said he had some lower back pain. But he was drifting in and out of consciousness a little bit," Mr Ogden said.
Hammond would have been strapped so tightly into his Vampire jet car with a six point safety harness that he could barely move, to protect him from such a disaster, an expert said today. He would also be sitting in a roll cage for his high speed drive.
"The Vampire is a pretty robustly built car, it has a very, very strong rollover structure. You are strapped in so tightly that you almost feel like you can’t move. You want to be as anchored as possible," said David Tremayne, a speed record historian.
"The roll cage would be around his head. His head would have been pretty well protected which is another thing in his favour.
"It is safe to say that, as far as the car is concerned, all the sensible safety procedures would have been taken."
The current British land speed record is held by Colin Fallows, from Northampton, in his dragster Vampire, which reached 300.3mph in 2000.
Hammond, who often drives high-performance cars as part of presenting Top Gear, was born in Birmingham but lives just outside Cheltenham with his wife Amanda and two children.
Michael Harvey, the editor of Top Gear magazine, told BBC News 24: "Clearly at those kinds of speeds the tiniest little thing has to go wrong and the speed obviously massively exaggerates the consequences of anything going wrong.
"This wasn’t a high performance car, this wasn’t a road car, this was a rocket-powered dragster which bears absolutely no relation to the kind of cars which are the main fodder of the Top Gear programme - this was a car that clearly contained its own risks."
He added: "I know every single precaution will have been taken but something clearly absolutely unaccounted for has gone wrong, and Richard has unfortunately suffered the consequences."
James May, who co-presents the popular motor show with Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson, said that he was devastated to learn his "old mate" had been injured.
His agent, Annie Sweetbaum, said: "James is absolutely devastated, he’s heard the news but doesn’t know how bad he is. He’s really shocked, his words to me were ‘He’s such a good mate, I’m so upset’.
"He said as soon as he’s allowed, he wants to go and see Richard."
A spokesman for the Health and Safety Executive said that an inspector would be visiting the airfield today to make initial inquiries over the crash.
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