HAMMOND ESCAPES BEFORE CAR BURSTS INTO FLAMES
FORMER Top Gear host Richard Hammond has been airlifted to hospital after his car crashed and burst into flames while filming in the Swiss alps.
The British TV presenter, 47, was driving an electric super car, and his colleague Jeremy Clarkson described it as “the biggest crash I’ve ever seen and the most frightening”.
Hammond who was filming for The Grand Tour, managed to escape the crash, which left the vehicle on its roof and scorched.
A spokesman for The Grand Tour said he suffered no serious injury.
“Richard was conscious and talking, and climbed out of the car himself before the vehicle burst into flames,” he said.
“He was flown by Air Ambulance to hospital in St Gallen to be checked over, revealing a fracture to his knee.” Clarkson tweeted: “It was the biggest crash I’ve ever seen and the most frightening but incredibly, and thankfully, Richard seems to be mostly OK.”