Star OK after supercar cropper

FORMER Top Gear star Richard Hammond has survived a bad car accident in the Swiss mountains.

Hammond, 47, was filming his Amazon TV show The Grand Tour when his Croatian electric supercar Romac Concept One left a mountain road in St Gallen in northeastern Switzerland and burst into flames.

He was flown to hospital but tests showed he had escaped the high-speed crash with a fractured knee.

Co-star and former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson tweeted about the accident, saying: “It was the biggest crash I have ever seen and the most frightening, but incredibly and thankfully, Richard seems to be mostly OK.’’

Photographs showed a burnt-out wreck of a car resting on its roof.

Hammond was badly injured in a high-speed crash back in 2006 that left him in a coma for several weeks but recovered and went on to build an international following with Top Gear before following Clarkson when he was sacked from the show in 2015.

The accident is thought to have happened on Saturday.

St Gallen police spokesman Gian Andrea Rezzoli told Swiss newspaper 20 Minuten the driver was taken by air ambulance to hospital.

Hammond was conscious and was able to get out of the car before it was engulfed in flames.

The Grand Tour confirmed Hammond was completing the Hemburg Hill Climb in Switzerland when the accident happened.

“Richard was conscious and talking and climbed out of the vehicle himself before it burst into flames,’’ the show said in a statement.

“No one else was in the car . . . and we’d like to thank the paramedics on site for their swift response.

“The cause of the crash is unknown and is being investigated.’’