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Doctors treating Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond say his condition has improved and he has been moved out of intensive care. Hammond is now said to be in a “stable” condition following his high speed crash in a jet-powered car.
Leeds General Infirmary said: “Richard Hammond is making satisfactory progress. This morning he has been moved from intensive care on to a high dependency unit.
“His condition has been downgraded from ‘serious but stable’ to ‘stable’.”
Friends and family are with the 36-year-old who suffered a “significant brain injury” when the 370mph jet-powered Vampire dragster he was driving veered off a runway and flipped over several times.
Doctors have said they were “reasonably optimistic” he would make a good recovery.
Fellow Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May visited him in hospital.
Clarkson described the moment he made Hammond smile. “I said: ‘The reason you’re here is because you’re a cxxx driver’. He then smiled at me. It was an amazing moment.
“Apart from a black eye, Richard didn’t look like he had a mark on him. He hasn’t a broken bone in his body,” Clarkson told The Sun.
Police and safety experts have launched an investigation into the crash, which happened after Hammond had been driving at speeds close to 300mph.
Organisers have denied reports that Hammond was trying to break the British land speed record.
After the accident, one paramedic claimed: “Richard kept saying: ‘I’ve got to do a piece to camera’.”
Good news then…. If just after the accident he was saying to the paramedics that he had to do a piece to the camera suggests to me that he has not suffered brain damage thank god.
I hope he’s going to be ok, otherwise we’ll never get to see this on TopGear. Is that the wrong attitude to have?
It’s not wrong hehe
When Steve Irwin died I really didn’t give a shit, but after the Hammond crash I’ve been concerned -_- Is that strange? i liek him – obviously in a non-sexual way haha but he seems like a decent guy and has done some decent shows.
Brain damage sucks, but if he can pull through I’d wager his career could be better now than it ever could have been.
@LeGIt wrote:
Brain damage sucks, but if he can pull through I’d wager his career could be better now than it ever could have been.
Is that possible? the guy is on almost everything… I am almost sure he is in 3 tv shows.
The main reason I like him is because he is fanatical about science, Physics in general, and I can only say that that is a massive positive for a subject that has seen declining numbers in teachers and students in recent years, anything that can raise the profile of science is a positive and with is affable character and enthusiasm, he can reach out to the young ‘uns in an almost Johnny Ball way. Lets hope he gets better soon!
Hammond rocks.. clarkson rocks.. other guy with hippy hair rocks!
top TV show and braniac is kool too
hope he fully recovers.. he’s funneh
I agree with the “these guys rock” sentiments.
But what is really pissing me off big time is that the Hamster’s accident has brought out the massed ranks of the “Tut!” brigade calling on banning Top Gear, banning anything on TV that looks remotely exciting, etc etc. OOOhhhhh it’s all too dangerous… people should be protected from themselves…. think of the environment… nanny knows best…blah blah bollocks
This brand of person just pisses me off big time – they will be the first against the wall come the revolution. And hiding behnd their Daily Mail’s won’t protect them.
There – now I’ve got that off my chest, Pharty – can I borrow you gun please? 🙂
yep lensy.. totally agree with you and the i hate the nobber brigade.. they suck on Mary Whitehouse’s minge!!
fecking tossers
@Lensman wrote:
I agree with the “these guys rock” sentiments.
But what is really pissing me off big time is that the Hamster’s accident has brought out the massed ranks of the “Tut!” brigade calling on banning Top Gear, banning anything on TV that looks remotely exciting, etc etc. OOOhhhhh it’s all too dangerous… people should be protected from themselves…. think of the environment… nanny knows best…blah blah bollocks
This brand of person just pisses me off big time – they will be the first against the wall come the revolution. And hiding behnd their Daily Mail’s won’t protect them.
There – now I’ve got that off my chest, Pharty – can I borrow you gun please? 🙂
Fuckin slimey cunts – I have no time for these people at all – they should all be culled. we gain momentum by peeps pushin boundries
I hope Richie Hammond steps straight back into that car and does the business
@Lensman wrote:
I agree with the “these guys rock” sentiments.
But what is really pissing me off big time is that the Hamster’s accident has brought out the massed ranks of the “Tut!” brigade calling on banning Top Gear, banning anything on TV that looks remotely exciting, etc etc. OOOhhhhh it’s all too dangerous… people should be protected from themselves…. think of the environment… nanny knows best…blah blah bollocks
This brand of person just pisses me off big time – they will be the first against the wall come the revolution. And hiding behnd their Daily Mail’s won’t protect them.
There – now I’ve got that off my chest, Pharty – can I borrow you gun please? 🙂
Exactly wot Lensy sez. And yes, any time 😆
Here’s Clarkson writing about the crash & aftermath:
Today, people who have absolutely no idea at all of how television works, (Yes, columnist Neil Lyndon  that’s you, you sanctimonious, rent-a-soundbite little t**d) are saying that our producers push us to do more and more dangerous stunts in a bid for ratings.
LMFAO…. Go on clarky…
Here’s a couple of comments from the people posting on the BBC website under the “Your messages for Richard Hammond” heading:
Funny how many Top Gear fans seem to be anti-PC anti-Nanny State types. No doubt Clarkson et al know their market.
I hope Hammond recovers, but I wish this useless programme wasn’t on. Fossil fuels are running out, children, you shouldn’t waste them!Mike Morris, Oxford
Whilst this is a terrible personal tragedy for Mr Hammond and his family, I cannot understand why News Agencies and Broadcasters are leading with this story. There are much more important things happening that affect the whole world..a very ‘local’ incident like this should not receive this level of coverage. It shows the shallow, short-term, voyeuristic depths to which News Editors and the human condition has sunk.
Rachel, Camborne
I wish Richard a speedy recovery.
In the meantime I hope the BBC ends the Top Gear Show. In my view it promotes fast and dangerous driving. The presenters are immature and need to grow up quickly before they are found guilty of causing deaths on the roads in UK.Christopher Nash, Halesowen
What TV presenters do is up to them, but I have to critisize a programme that promotes ‘boy racing’ and I think Richard payed a high price for being able to be a boy racer at his age. He should know better. I loathe Top Gear with it’s unbridled promoting of cars and ‘how fast they can go’. Cars are killers, they pollute and they use petrol. I’d say get rid of the lot of them, there has to be a better way…
Lenie, London
Why all the press and outpouring of public grief for this clearly inadequate little man? While I wish him well, I was more concerned to see him wasting the fire brigade’s time and money on a recent ‘best of’ episode when the team blew up a vehicle then collapsed in fits of laughter. Get well soon, then grow up.
Johnny X, St. Albans
I’d like to see what these fuckers write in condolences cards 👿
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