Richard Hammond wurde am 19 Dezember 1969 in Solihull, West Midlands, England, UK geboren. Er ist Produzent und Schauspieler, bekannt für Top Gear (2002), The Crime (2012) und Brainiac (2003).
While filming for a new series of Top Gear (2002) on September
20th 2006, he was seriously injured when the jet car he was driving
overturned. He was cut out of the vehicle and removed by air ambulance
to Hospital. Despite suffering a "serious brain injury" he left
intensive care and entered a private hospital within 10 days.
