Just seeing on the news - Richard Hammond is in Critical Condition after a car crash at Evington Air Field this afternoon, trying to break the Land Speed record in the Vampire Jet Engined car (a Jet from the Red Arrows, 500bhp) for an episode of Top Gear.
The car crashed on the final run of the day - got up to 280mph and something went wrong after the parachute deployed, veered right and went onto the grass, overturning.
His head upside down with his head dug into the soil, still breathing at that point. He did regain conciousness when he was being extracted from the car, and explain where any pain was.
He is currently at Leeds General Hospital.
Let's give all our suport to his family and hope he pulls through.
This is the car he was driving http://www.thule.co.uk/partners/blsr.asp
Poll for flowers for Richard here
http://forum.finalgear.com/viewtopic.php?t=13909
Update 21/09 8am - Leeds Hospital say his condition is "improving"
Update 28/09 - Moved from Leeds hospital - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5388296.stm
The car crashed on the final run of the day - got up to 280mph and something went wrong after the parachute deployed, veered right and went onto the grass, overturning.
His head upside down with his head dug into the soil, still breathing at that point. He did regain conciousness when he was being extracted from the car, and explain where any pain was.
He is currently at Leeds General Hospital.
Let's give all our suport to his family and hope he pulls through.
This is the car he was driving http://www.thule.co.uk/partners/blsr.asp
Poll for flowers for Richard here
http://forum.finalgear.com/viewtopic.php?t=13909
Update 21/09 8am - Leeds Hospital say his condition is "improving"
Update 28/09 - Moved from Leeds hospital - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5388296.stm