Richard Hammond injured in car crash

[BettySpaghetti]

...whilst filming for Top Gear. Saw it on BBC3 news , something about it here .

I know he has lots of admirers on here

updated story QoQ's link.

Just the word significant fio (not sure it's that new though- think they released that a while ago).

ooo that's Aero - didn't realised I'd stuffed the last one up

Wishing him a speedy and full recovery. I feel so for his wife and children. If she is a MNr, I hope she sees all the positive messages.

I feel sorry for James may too (though obviously not to the same degree). It's all come out that he was supposed to have done that piece but due to various diary clashes it was changed about a week ago.

Obviously he is in no way to blame but you can imagine, can't you, that he will be thinking "it should have been me" and feeling bad about it because Richard has children and he doesn't.

Oh no, really? Poor James

The' just giving' page for Yorkshire Air Ambulance has got over £17, 000 on it! Maybe his wife will read through all the good wishes on there too.

Theres a donation post on another web. They are raising money for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance as a thankyou for getting RH to hosp in double quick time. So far they have raised over £16,000.
Anyone interested in donating?

D'oh. Takes me ages to type

snowboo!

I thought that you might be interested in this lastest news piece about RH posted on Sky news about 30 minutes ago. In particular the comments made by James May when he visited RH in hospital today: -

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I know that it is probably too early to know, but sounds positive at least.

Wow that sounds like hope. fingers crossed for him

She added that May had expressed himself "absolutely delighted" after seeing his colleague recovering in hospital.

May said: "Despite everything he's been through, he still seems like the Richard I know and love."

That sounds quite positive. I hope so.

lots of love to Hammond and family

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that does sound positive. Fingers crossed

Serious brain injury sounds bad

I have vg friend who is prof of psychology in NY and does research into brain injury - it can change your entire personality and destroy your life. Let's hope he doesn't have one of those

I've been talking to a friend who knows loads about brain injury and she was saying that its possible its an acceleration/deceleration injury which can be catastrophic particulalry if he has damge to his brain stem or frontal lobes. She sadly lost her mother who too worked in Brain injury, to a fatal impact injury last year and this was from falling down some stairs

He's in a good place for treatment though, hope he improves beyond their prognosis. Air ambulance is a fab thing, they airlifted my DH a few years ago and i've been in their debt ever since.

to be posotive I know someone who "died" had to be resusitated and had a brain injury
now just has epilepsy
I am sure his family were warned thing were bad when it happened

i saw on the news tomorrows headlines on one of the papers, it said that jeremy clarkson had told richard hammond he was a shit driver and he had raised a smile from him, its thats true that sounds brilliant!

The 'just giving' page is nearly up to £25,500 (in aid of Yorkshire Air Ambulance that rescued him)

MN has a rather troll-y side to her, I think - loves to light the touch paper and then retire to watch the fireworks from a distance.

Crap! I meant MD, not MN! Blimey, def bed time.

With brain injury, they will need to wait 4-5 days for the swelling to go down, so they can see the impact and injury of what has happened. It is still really early days. Fingers crossed. It must all be so scary for his wife, family and friends.