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Richard Hammond has opened up about how his accidents from hisHigh Gear automobile crash nonetheless have an effect on his well being as we speak.
In 2016, Hammond was driving a jet-powered dragster at 319mph on the motoring present when a tyre burst at 319mph, inflicting him to profession uncontrolled and land the other way up in a area.
He was left in a coma for 2 weeks and suffered critical head accidents, together with a frontal lobe mind harm. However in 2022, he acquired again behind the wheel of the exact same automobile.
In an interview with The Sunday Instances, Hammond mirrored on how he thinks his frontal lobe mind harm has already began to have an effect on his reminiscence at 54.
“It did have a knock-on impact. I’ve mentioned it since with my household. I’m 54 and my reminiscence’s getting shaky,” he mentioned.
Hammond mentioned that he has no recollection of the fast occasions after the 2006 incident, however he was informed he tried to do a “piece to digicam afterwards”.
Nonetheless, although, Hammond mentioned he can nonetheless see a extra optimistic facet to the crash, remarking that the crash boosted their High Gear viewing figures early on within the present’s run.
“It helped humanise us past being automobile reporters,” he mentioned.
Hammond mirrored on the automobile crash earlier this 12 months when discussing former England cricket captain Freddie Flintoff’s accidents sustained after a crash whereas filming High Gear in December 2022.
Talking about his expertise, Hammond informed Instances Radio that his personal crash was one thing he feels “no one” might have stopped from occurring.
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He continued: “However every thing that adopted from there was nice. They’d the correct contacts in place. They did issues in the correct order. They acquired an air ambulance there. Every part was completed correctly. And that’s all you’ll be able to finally do, isn’t it?”
Hammond’s feedback come after Jeremy Clarkson introduced that he has ended his long-term presenting partnership with Hammond and James Might.
The trio began working collectively on BBC’s High Gear in 2002 and moved over to Amazon for Prime Video sequence The Grand Tour, which premiered in 2021 – however now it’s been introduced that The Grand Tour gained’t be returning.
Clarkson wrote in The Sunday Times that he’s “packing in” his work as a automobile presenter and focusing his power elsewhere – presumably his Amazon sequence Clarkson’s Farm and his newly-opened pub, The Farmer’s Canine.
“After 36 years of speaking about vehicles on tv, I’m packing it in, as a result of I’m too previous and fats to get into the vehicles that I like and never concerned with driving these I don’t,” Clarkson mentioned.
“What this implies in fact is that my 22-year partnership with James Might and Richard Hammond is now over. You’ll be able to see our remaining highway journey collectively on Amazon Prime very quickly. It’s emotional.”
Earlier this 12 months, it was reported that Clarkson, Hammond and Might had dissolved their manufacturing firm, declaring solvency and appointing a liquidator to “wind up” their enterprise.
The ultimate Grand Tour episode will air on Prime Video on 13 September.
