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Richard Hammond shared the “intimate” details of the 2006 high-speed crash that left him with serious injuries in the hope it would “connect” with people affected by brain injury.
Richard Hammond has opened up about how his injuries from his Top Gear car crash still affect his health today.. In 2016, Hammond was driving a jet-powered dragster at 319mph on the motoring show ...
Hammond is an ambassador of UK charity for children with brain injury and neuro-disability The Children's Trust. [ 144 ] On 29 September 2013, terminally-ill eight-year-old Emilia Palmer was driven by Hammond in a pink Lamborghini Aventador Roadster (newly repainted for the occasion).
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First screened on BBC One in 2007, its first presenter was Richard Hammond. He agreed to front the show to thank the Yorkshire Air Ambulance crew which flew him to hospital in after his near-fatal jet engine powered car crash, while filming for Top Gear , at Elvington airfield near York, in September 2006.
Clarkson asked Hammond following his 370 km/h (230 mph) crash, "Are you now a mental?", which was followed by James May offering Richard Hammond a tissue "in case he dribbled". The BBC claimed the comments were meant as a joke, but also claimed they saw how the comments could cause offence to mentally disabled and brain-damaged viewers. [65]
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This category is for people who have experienced traumatic brain injuries and did not die of it, either as an immediate or near-immediate result. The distinction is whether the individual survived long enough to manifest behavioral alterations or impairment. Over time, they may or may not have appeared to completely recover from the injury.