Just pasting this across from other forums: Thought this was quite a nice gesture so felt id make folks aware of it here. A member of Pistonheads has setup an appeal for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance through justgiving.com in thanks for their work getting Richard Hammond to hospital in double quick smooth running time. The link is here. http://www.justgiving.com/PHRichardHammond If anyone does make a donation to the Yorkshire Air Ambulance Charity, please make sure you tick the extra boxes to get your tax back off Gordon Brown to add to the donation. More details about the work of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance Charity can be found here. www.yorkshireairambulance.org.uk/index.html
MY thoughts are with The Hamster and his family at this time. Hope he makes a full recovery, although BBC are now reporting that he has suffered a "serious Brian Injury" [:^(] Although Doctors at Leeds General Infirmary said they were "reasonably optimistic" he'd make a good recovery http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/5367616.stm Its time's like this that remind me of my Child hood Hero, Eddie Kidd, and just hope this accident any any injuries don't effect the Hamster anywhere near as bad. Good well soon
Just seen how much money has already been donated to the YAA from that justgiving page - astonishing. This incident could turn out to be one of the best things ever to happen to the air ambulance - they do the same thing every day, but this time they're getting some seriously well deserved publicity.
i hope he pulls through he was what makes me watch top gear especially when he did the finnish flick in the rascal van and rolled it , or when he made the anphibious vehicle from a vee dub camper and it sank the bloke is a legend . get well soon the hamster.
Yorkshire Air Ambulance...legends. Yet i hope i dont ever meet them if you know what i mean. I hope he makes a full recovery. xxxxx
Its just amazing that this has happened to be honest, freak accident or what. First Steve Irwins death, now this.... hope he makes a good recovery. Top Gear certainly wouldnt be the same without the Hamster
Thats a stunning amount of money raised for the Air Ambulance. Just shows how passionate petrol heads are about their scene. I hope he recovers and can continue to do what he loves - driving and racing and entertaining us petrol blooded lot!
top bloke, hope he gets better soon, if they had a whip round for him i can imagine something like 100 million from the worldwide watchers of top gear
He certainly is! BBC website says his condition has been downgraded from 'serious but stable' to 'stable' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/5369512.stm
35K + raised for the Air ambulance now http://www.justgiving.com/PHRichardHammond?page=23#donationtable
Not gonna quote the guy on the forum because it's bad taste but have a look at the 3rd episode from the last series where they're discussing the new konegsigg[sp?] for the cool wall. Just watched it again today and though
