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Top Gear's Richard Hammond out of Hospital: Six Month Recovery
Guardian UK ^ | 9/28/2006 | Chris Tryhorn

Posted on 09/28/2006 11:43:33 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL

Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond will be "back to his old self" in about six months, according to the specialist looking after him.

Hammond, who was today transferred to a private hospital in Bristol, was said to be "doing well" eight days after the 300mph dragster crash that left him with a brain injury.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cars; fastcars; hamster; richardhammond; topgear
Glad to see he is doing better. They still have yet to detail the type of brain injury he had. Though they say 6 months, it will probably be shorter than that as is usually the case. Now, when will BBC2 start allowing us bloody yanks to watch the show on the website?
1 posted on 09/28/2006 11:43:36 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL
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According to Newman in Private Eye the next edition of Top Gear will feature test driving hearses.

well my local undertaker found it funny.

seriously - the program is under threat because of this. On the bright side he walked from the stretcher to his new hospital bed!!
2 posted on 09/28/2006 1:01:00 PM PDT by vimto (Blighty Awaken!)
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