Car trouble for Hammond
RICHARD ‘hamster’ hammond is grateful to have survived a life-threatening electric car crash in the swiss Alps while filming Amazon Prime’s motoring show The Grand Tour.
But, taken alongside his coma-inducing blow- out in september 2006, it has created a practical challenge — car insurance. ‘They ask, “have you had any accidents?”’ he tells me. ‘“er, just a bit.” As a show our insurance is quite high and that’s my fault.’
hammond’s colleague James May quotes his premium as £5,000 a year, which seems cheap at half the price.