By Leftlane Staff
Thursday, Jan 18th, 2007 @ 10:19 am

The BBC has released images of the famous high-speed crash involving Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond. Mr. Hammond crashed a jet-powered dragster at 288 mph while filming for the popular automotive show in September.

“I will have taken a few deep breaths on the start line as the engine roared and my thumb hovered over the afterburner switch,” he told Top Gear magazine.

“Then I will have hit it and 10,000 horsepower will have hurled me towards the horizon and up to 280mph. The rest is, I’m afraid, history,” he added. [Crash image | Wreckage].

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