Dårlig nyt til alle top gear fans:
Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has been injured in an accident while filming an edition of the programme, the BBC said.
Hammond was in a "critical" condition at Leeds General Infirmary, a hospital spokesman said.
Hammond, who often drives high-performance cars as part of presenting the show, has been taken to hospital following the incident at an airfield near York.
A BBC spokeswoman said: "The incident happened quite recently and the focus of our attention is on Richard at this stage. "We will make further details known as soon as they are available."
Inspector Mike Thompson, of North Yorkshire Police, said officers were dealing with the incident at the airfield north-east of York.
He said: "At 5.45pm (on Wednesday) evening we received a report via the fire service of a male person trapped in what was described as an overturned jet car which had been driven on the airfield.
"The male occupant has received serious injuries and has been airlifted to hospital at Leeds." He said no further details were available at this time.
Ønsker ham god bedring!
OT: Richard Hammond
Det er nogle dage siden det skete, og han har sidenhen været oppe på sine ben.
Han er ikke længere på intensiv, og hans tilstand skulle være stabil. Der er gode chancer for, at han klarer sig uden seriøse men.
Håber det bedste for vores lille hamster.
Ok godt at høre... Vi har ikke brug for at miste endnu en genial tv-vært i år.
Postet her for flere dage siden -men velkommen til:
her er dagens update:
LONDON (Reuters) - Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has got out of bed and walked after suffering brain injuries in a high-speed crash, co-host Jeremy Clarkson told The Sun newspaper on Saturday.
"In the wee small hours of Thursday night, just 30 hours after what is almost certainly the world's fastest ever car crash, Richard Hammond suddenly sat up in bed opened his eyes and asked what had happened," wrote Clarkson in his Sun column.
"'You've been in a car accident', I said. 'Was I driving badly?' he asked, before getting out of bed and walking shakily to the lavatory."
A Leeds General Infirmary hospital spokeswoman told Reuters on Saturday that Hammond continues to "make good progress".
Hammond's wife Mindy also provided an upbeat assessment of her husband's medical condition.
"He's spoken and smiled. It's early days and what has happened hasn't really sunk in for him," she told The Daily Miror newspaper.
Hammond, 36, was seriously injured on Wednesday when he crashed a jet-powered dragster as he accelerated towards 300 mph in a feature being filmed for the BBC show.
He suffered what his doctors have called a significant brain injury as a result of the accident at an RAF airfield near York.
Although doctors remain concerned about his condition they have said they are "reasonably optimistic that he will make a good recovery."