Richard Hammond Another Crash....

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Ex-Top Gear host Richard Hammond has been airlifted to hospital after a crash while filming in Switzerland.

The 47-year-old presenter was taking part in a race in an electric car for Amazon Prime show The Grand Tour.

Mr Hammond "climbed out of the car himself before the vehicle burst into flames," the show said in a statement.

Co-host Jeremy Clarkson tweeted that it was the "most frightening" accident he had ever seen but said Mr Hammond was "mostly OK".

The show's statement said: "Richard Hammond was involved in a serious crash after completing the Hemburg Hill Climb in Switzerland in a Rimac Concept One, an electric super car built in Croatia, during filming for The Grand Tour Season 2 on Amazon Prime, but very fortunately suffered no serious injury."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40234865
 
Don't think this is going on the Cool Wall

 

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Frightening image. I will be very interested to see what happened and how the battery behaved. Cars use a more volatile form of lithium ion battery than we use in forklifts.
 
There is a video of the accident online, my chrome was hanging around for it to work though and I couldn't be bothered to wait any longer. Was on the mirror site.

Hopefully he recovers quickly.