Richard Hammond wants to speak to Freddie Flintoff after both suffered Top Gear crashes

Freddie Flintoff and Richard Hammond were both involved in high-speed crashes on Top Gear (Picture: Rex/Getty)

Richard Hammond would ‘very much like to’ speak to Freddie Flintoff after he was injured in a horror crash while filming Top Gear.

Flintoff, 46, suffered facial injuries and broken ribs and was said to be ‘lucky to be alive’ after the accident at the show’s Surrey-based test track in 2022.

More than a decade prior, Hammond, 54, was also involved in a collision on Top Gear, leaving him in a coma and with a frontal lobe brain injury.

The Grand Tour presenter said he had not spoken to Flintoff to give him space to concentrate on his recovery but would ‘very much like to’.

When asked if he had been in touch with the former cricketer, Hammond replied: ‘I’d very much like to, but he’s on his own business of recovery.

‘Having been down the path of recovery myself, I know that you just need to get on with it. But if the opportunity arises to talk to him, of course I would.’

Hammond said he would like to approach Flintoff once he has had space to recover (Picture: Discovery+/Chimp Productions Ltd)

Flintoff suffered facial injuries and broke ribs in the crash (Picture: PA)

Flintoff joined Top Gear in 2019 but it has now been taken off air for the foreseeable future (Picture: PA)

Hammond also said he did not ‘involve himself’ after news broke of Flintoff’s crash but felt ‘horrified and scared’ for him.

He told The Mirror: I didn’t involve myself in it. Of course, I was horrified and scared for him, and I wish him the best possible recovery.

‘It’s a really awful thing to happen.’

After the crash, the BBC announced that Top Gear had been taken off air ‘for the foreseeable future’, given the ‘exceptional circumstances’.

Hammond presenter Top Gear alongside the likes of Clarkson (Picture: Vito Corleone/SOPA Images/Shutterstock)

Flintoff has not spoken publicly about the crash (Picture: PA)

Flintoff has kept a low profile since the accident but will return to TV with his docuseries Field of Dreams.

Pictures taken of Flintoff filming the BBC cricket show last month appeared to show him with significant healing.

Hammond, meanwhile, recently revealed he was living with a health condition, ‘lost key syndrome’,18 years after the crash.

By ‘lost key syndrome’, the father-of-two likely means dysexecutive syndrome, which is the dysregulation of executive functions strictly associated with frontal lobe damage, according to the British Medical Journal.

Hammond has also spoken about his fear of being diagnosed with onset dementia as a result of the crash.

The TV star hosted Top Gear for more than a decade between 2002 and 2015 with Jeremy Clarkson and James May.

Flintoff started presenting Top Gear alongside Take Me Out host Paddy McGuinness and automotive journalist Chris Harris in 2019.

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