Richard Hammond Is Doing Well After His Second High Speed Crash | This Morning

What happened? What went wrong? Well, I went out at some

speed

, it was the end of a hill climb, so when you go up a hill, obviously, which means when you get to the bottom of the hill you're at the top, so if you go off there. you have to do it very quickly so it just slipped away from you yeah so I went over the edge um and then it landed a few times and it landed on its Ro, you said that you were very aware of the fact that you were in the air and you knew that how much The longer you were in the air, the louder the explosion was going to be, that's some kind of sharp thinking, honey, that's why you killed me.

He had worked it out the more time in the air he had, the stronger. It must be and sure enough it was what you got out of him before he burst into flames. That's what some of you mentioned, right? I've probably spent more belly time in cars than most people, so I'm genuinely that professional. It's probably helpful when you're in that situation for me to think

well

, it's important for me to do that, but did you think it would be better to get out of

this

real quick? Yes, of course. I mean, I think how many times if if if you're running down the road and you sprain your ankle and you go ahead and fix it it's far from where it happened it's what your brain tells you to do but you could hear, you could hear flames, you could actually .

I actually heard that, possibly I don't have clear memories. I remember thinking he probably wanted to be somewhere else,

this

and that's what you know, actually the first thing I did was call Mindy because I knew she was going to be, yeah,

well

, they were going to pick him up. It is not like this? I thought Mindy you had a feeling, didn't you? A bad feeling that is something that usually happens when he is away at work. You think well, he's at work. I'll let him call me and I'll just let the guys, move on, really, if they answer this time, they had this weird feeling, yeah, because I actually called Richard the day before and I just said, "Oh, is it going well?" ?", which I don't usually do, he never does that, never ever. and um it was all yeah, yeah, okay, okay and then the day of the accident I called him and I said, are you done yet?

Oh, and he said yeah, I just have to do it a couple more times and then there was a phone. I called and uh I had a little shunt, a little bit of a shunt, um, yeah, it makes you panic to think that I would hit my Bon again, so since the other accident, it would have an impact on the injury. I remember he was already lying on the ground and he was reciting the things he had done that day to the team that was with me at the time saying "Oh wait, we've been there, we've been

doing

that." I was just checking that everything was like

doing

a systems check on the limited brain capacity that I have and once I did that I wanted to call the men and say, "don't be mad, well, you were shopping Wen, so you have to keep calm, yeah, did you know I got a little weird, something I've never done before?

I continued shopping, yeah, I told Izzy, my 16-year-old daughter, that we were going to buy your shoes so let's go. buy your shoes we're going to go buy your shoes and she was thinking she's gone crazy but you know he's still shopping let's be pretty clear that's what they did oh no anyway these are cute you just have to keep doing something you know, yeah, to get over it, yeah, you mean, with him doing this? I mean, there are many, many dangerous jobs in the world and yours really shouldn't be, no. but even so, it still has a large element of risk.

I would say that every time he goes out and does this and as the stunts get bigger and bigger, do you worry? That's something I don't think I can't think about. I just think, oh, he went to work. It's harder to keep that at bay and not think about it every time you get those phones, like every once in a while. I mean, I think I probably have. It didn't help now, no, actually, I did, I said three strikes, you're out, you've had two tries, you need, you know, you would put up with that, probably not and how are you, I mean you because you had to have surgery. on your knee, oh, that's bad, yeah, so what happened was when I think when the car hit nose first, it pushed that leg up to the knee joint and broke the bottom of the knee here, but as a result of that.

Later they told me I had lost 7 mm in height. I have not done it. I can't save it. So what they've done is they don't have you AR or even no, no, yeah, I'm just going to be running. in circles forever, no, they put the drill bit back inside the knee and then put a plate down. I have that like my swiss army knee there it's metal and then some pins hold it all together so In a few months it will be fixed and I couldn't can you ask them to lift you up a little yeah but then I would have been

high

er on that side and they would have to do the other knee and it really hurts so no, but I can't walk on it for a few months and I've been told I can't run for about a year or 18 months even wow, it Which is bad because Mindy will tell you.

I used to throw out my running shoes, just go out and go for a run, oh really, and then what is he like as a patient, brilliant, brilliant, are you, are you, is he driving you crazy? It's not two teenage girls and a nine year old man, it's just horrible, it's Jeremy and James, they're understanding, WEP, they cried, apparently neither of them have slept since and I get a lot of loud phone calls and texts from both of them hours of the night. oh Richard, I just woke up really worried about how you are doing um yeah, not really, come on, let's close, you must have scared them so much Jeremy was the first, oh yeah, you saw that the contract was falling apart, didn't you?

It's hard to think about legal work, no of course we're close to it, but we've worked together for 125 years like this, so it's forbidden and it hasn't put you off in any way, it hasn't turned you into something like that. in the back of your mind, a little nervous about turning back, go a little slower next time I'm on a Swiss mountain, but other than that, we all look over the edge and think, oh, I'd hate to go and now you . you know what it feels like right I don't like it and when I go back to work um and you take the nine year old out of the house um how will you feel um how will you feel what will you say that normally you don't say don't do it again I won't do it again over there