Top Gear Presenter Critically Injured
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Richard Hammond, presenter on BBC's Top Gear motoring programme, has been critically injured in a crash during filming. I know Top Gear is a very popular programme and has fans on here, me included, and this is sad news indeed. 
I hope he makes a full and swift recovery.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/5365676.stm
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.
I hope he makes a full and swift recovery.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/5365676.stm
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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Sky news are saying he was trying to get up to 280mph apparently (I wouldn't have thought the runway was long enough even in a jet car); I really hope he's okay.
EDIT: No; I'm mistaken- he's in Yorkshire.
But i really like it, and yes, they make me laugh.
But this isn´t a joke, this in´t funny. i really hope Hamster get along with it...
It doesn´t matter how good you are but - call it Karma or luck - nasty thing can happen.
Best wishes to him & his family.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1878077,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1
Chris Tryhorn and agencies
Thursday September 21, 2006
MediaGuardian.co.uk
TV presenter Richard Hammond suffered a "significant brain injury" in a high-speed crash, doctors said tonight.
But Leeds General Infirmary said it was "reasonably optimistic he will make a good recovery".
The Top Gear presenter was injured yesterday evening when a jet-propelled car, in which he hoped to break the British land speed record, crashed while travelling at 300mph.
The Health and Safety Executive is to look into the preparation and planning for yesterday's event, held at Elvington airfield near Leeds.
"One would expect the BBC to have organisational arrangements and risk assessments for dealing with any production-related activity on a site like this and elsewhere," said Keith King, a principal inspector with the HSE.
"It will include looking at what arrangements they had for dealing with emergencies. It is very unusual ... this is one of the reasons why we are working with the police.
"Our file will consider what action is appropriate, bearing in mind what evidence comes out of the investigation."
The HSE will investigate the accident jointly with the police, and the BBC has also set up an inquiry.
The dragster involved in the accident has been taken away for detailed forensic examination at a secret location.
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It's heartening to see the huge outpouring of support though; apparently the BBC have received thousands of emails and messages. He's a popular guy, is Hamster!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006440317,00.html
LOL ... we will have to adopt that for next time a new Bond is announced!
Brilliant article as always by Clarkson and good to hear Hamster is doing so well.
And the Road Safety Minister defending the programme: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2372255,00.html
Hammond crash pictures revealed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6273973.stm
Thankfully, 'Hamster' has made an astonishingly quick recovery and will be back presenting (along with Jeremy Clarkson and James May) the new series of Top Gear on Sunday 28th January. Video footage of the crash is scheduled to be broadcast in the first programme.
I checked the BBC America site a while back, but it said that Top Gear wasn't on the list for American showings. I too have only seen the edited versions, which have unfortunately been taken off the Discovery Channel... Really though, I would much rather see it uncut, not to mention perhaps a bit sooner than two years after it was first shown...
BBC airs Top Gear crash footage
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6303717.stm
Top Gear is such a terrific programme and those boys really do have the best jobs in the world IMO.
The last series was shown on the bbc website (although not for those with out-of-UK ISPs though I think).
Not that we condone this sort of thing, but you could try the torrents.
www.alluc.org has a lot of TV programs on it, though most of them are American.
Maybe Google TV would have it, and here is a video telling you how to subscribe to Google Video!
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/googletv
Not that AJB condones this sort of thing