{"id":31,"date":"2006-09-21T10:32:19","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T02:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/09\/21\/richard-hammond-seriously-hurt-in-accident\/"},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:54:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:54:59","slug":"richard-hammond-seriously-hurt-in-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/09\/21\/richard-hammond-seriously-hurt-in-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Hammond seriously hurt in accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/north_yorkshire\/5365676.stm\">reporting<\/a> that Richard Hammond, host of popular car program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topgear.com\/\">Top Gear<\/a> and science program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyone.co.uk\/programmes\/brainiac\/\">Brainiac<\/a>, has been seriously injured in a motor vehicle accident. I&#8217;m including an image since people who kind-of-know-who-he-is might recognise his face.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image33\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/richard_hammond1.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"Richard Hammond from Top Gear\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He was driving a &#8220;dragster-style car&#8221; at a former RAF airfield. After admission to hospital and initial treatment, his condition was reported as &#8220;stable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update<\/strong>: A <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/5371556.stm\">followup story<\/a> on the BBC website includes diagrams of the scene. It also mentions &#8220;significant brain injury&#8221;, but also implies that he is (hopefully) going to make a good recovery.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update<\/strong>: Looks like Hammond will be alright. The BBC is reporting that his recovery is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/5390598.stm\">&#8220;remarkable&#8221;<\/a>. He&#8217;s anticipating a ribbing from his fellow Top Gear hosts.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC is reporting that Richard Hammond, host of popular car program Top Gear and science program Brainiac, has been seriously injured in a motor vehicle accident. I&#8217;m including an image since people who kind-of-know-who-he-is might recognise his face. He was driving a &#8220;dragster-style car&#8221; at a former RAF airfield. After admission to hospital and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/09\/21\/richard-hammond-seriously-hurt-in-accident\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Richard Hammond seriously hurt in accident&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3772,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}