Richard Hammond, one of the presenters of Amazon’s car-themed TV show The Grand Tour, has escaped serious injury in a fiery crash while driving an electric supercar during filming in Switzerland.
Hammond, the former Top Gear presenter was airlifted to hospital with a fractured knee.
The Rimac Concept One electric supercar, worth NZ$3.5 million, according to the Guardian, was reduced to a twisted, blackened mess after it crashed and caught fire.
Co-stars Jeremy Clarkson and James May saw the 47-year-old lying on the ground just metres from the burning car, after he had crawled free from the wreckage. The pair thought at first that he had died, the Mirror reports.
The show says no-one else was involved, and the cause of the crash is under investigation.
What Rimac Automobili’s all-wheel-drive electric supercar normally looks like.
