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"Top Gear&amp;#039;s Richard Hammond has been seriously injured while filming for the BBC motoring programme. &amp;quot;We can confirm that an accident has happened while filming an edition of Top Gear at an airfield near York,&amp;quot; a BBC spokesperson told Digital Spy late on Wednesday evening. &amp;quot;The presenter Richard Hammond has been taken to hospital. 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.&amp;quot; The 36 year old presenter was driving a jet-powered car capable of over 300mph in an attempt to break the British land speed record. Reports indicate that on the final run of the day, the car sharply turned to the right, precipitating an emergency in which one of the braking parachutes on board the vehicle deployed. Shortly afterwards, the reports state, the car flipped multiple times and crashed. It is not known what speed the car was travelling when the accident happened. &amp;quot;At 5:45pm this 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,&amp;quot; said Inspector Mike Thompson of North Yorkshire Police. &amp;quot;The male occupant has received serious injuries and has been airlifted to hospital at Leeds.&amp;quot;  A spokesperson for the North Yorkshire Ambulance Service told BBC News that Hammond was unconscious when paramedics arrived at the scene. Hammond was taken by air ambulance from a former RAF airfield in Yorkshire to the neurological unit at Leeds General Infirmary and was reported to be in critical condition upon admission. Shortly after 11:30pm, Leeds General reported that Hammond&amp;#039;s condition was &amp;quot;stable.&amp;quot; More on this story here on Digital Spy as it comes in. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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