the Vampire Dragster. For Hammond, this is a crash that nearly killed him. On a recent YouTube upload on DRIVETRIBE, Hammond gets back into a Vampire jet car - a vehicle that nearly took the ...

At the time, Hammond was driving a jet-powered dragster called Vampire and travelling at a speed of 319 miles per hour. After the front-right tyre failed, the car flipped over, damaging Hammond ...

In 2006, whilst piloting a Vampire jet-powered dragster, Hammond survived a crash at 463km/h - caused by tyre failure. Little more than a decade later, the affectionately nicknamed ‘Hamster' has ...

Richard Hammond revealed that he suffered 'survivor's guilt' after he nearly died in a 320mph crash during the show ... we've sorted this jet-powered dragster for you to have a go".

This is not the first time Hammond has cheated death in a serious crash. In 2006, while filming a Top Gear segment, he lost control of a Vampire dragster while driving at high speed, and was ...

Former Top Gear host Richard Hammond has said he fears his worsening memory could be linked to his 2006 crash ... Hammond crashed a jet-powered dragster called Vampire at nearly 320mph (515kmph ...

Mindy Hammond was having a horse-riding lesson when she learned the jet-propelled Vampire Dragster that Solihull-born Richard was driving had suffered a blow out and crashed at 288mph. It was ...

Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond is inviting the doctors, nurses and air ambulance staff who saved his life after a 288mph crash to a ... 370mph jet-powered Vampire dragster veered off the ...

Former Top Gear host Richard Hammond has been flown to hospital after a crash while filming in Switzerland. The 47-year-old was on a practice run for a race in an electric car for Amazon Prime ...

Hammond spins, and then the scene cuts to Jeremy Clarkson and James May hearing about the crash. Maybe in the ... leg and brain injury in his Vampire jet dragster wreck. Another incident resulted ...

Mr Hammond had been in a dragster-style car capable of reaching speeds of about 300mph at Elvington airfield near York. The hospital said his wife was at his bedside and, at the request of his family, ...