Hammond crash pictures published
Footage of Hammond's crash will be shown on Top Gear
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Thursday, 18, Jan 2007 09:31
Pictures of the high speed crash that left Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond seriously injured have been published for the first time.
Hammond was driving a jet-powered dragster for the programme at a speed of 288mph when it veered off the track and flipped over.
A series of pictures published in Top Gear magazine show a blown tyre as triggering the near-fatal accident.
Hammond has said that he cannot remember his first two weeks in hospital, where he spent the first few days in intensive care.
Describing the accident, he writes in the car magazine: "I will have taken a few deep breaths on the start line as the engine roared and my thumb hovered over the afterburner switch.
"Then I will have hit it and 10,000 horsepower will have hurled me towards the horizon and up to 280mph. And the rest is, I'm afraid, history."
Footage of the crash is due to be shown during the BBC programme on January 28th.