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Richard Hammond's daughter Izzy, 22, discusses how the Top Gear star's 320mph horror crash 'changed his brain' during a rare TV appearance


The former Top Gear host, 54, was left in a coma for two weeks in 2006 after the car he was driving spun out of control at York's Elvington airfield.

The former Top Gear host almost died filming a stunt in a Vampire jet car at York's Elvington airfield in 2006 with the accident inspiring their new podcast, Who We Are Now He suffered with a 'frontal lobe bleed', causing memory loss, depression and difficulties with emotional experience (pictured being transferred by Yorkshire Air Ambulance afterwards) After his accident, Richard recovered and returned to the show in early 2007 but revealed in February this year that he fears he has memory loss as a result.

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