Pictures of the high-speed dragster crash involving Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond have been published for the first time since the accident.
The 36-year-old crashed a 288mph jet-powered dragster while filming a sequence for the popular motoring show, at Elvington airfield in York last September.
The photographs, which are featured in the latest issue of Top Gear magazine, show a tyre bursting and the dragster skidding before flipping over.
Hammond was treated for serious brain injury, but has made a remarkable recovery. However, the father-of-two admits he has hardly any recollection of the crash.
“I will have taken a few deep breaths on the start line as the engine roared and my thumb hovered over the afterburner switch,” he told Top Gear magazine.
“Then I will have hit it and 10,000 horsepower will have hurled me towards the horizon and up to 280mph. The rest is, I’m afraid, history,” he added.
In December, Hammond gave his first television interview on Jonathan Ross’s Friday night chat show and said he was looking forward to returning on the set of Top Gear.
Video footage of the crash will be broadcast in the first episode of the new series of Top Gear on January 28th, according to the magazine.
See the Flash website promoting the latest issue here and read Richard’s Mirror article here
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