Top Gear Host Hospitalized After 300mph Crash
Doctors treating Richard Hammond said last night that the Top Gear presenter had "suffered a significant brain injury" when the jet-powered dragster he was driving crashed after reaching speeds approaching 300mph.
The father of two had to be cut from the wreckage and was flown by air ambulance to Leeds General infirmary, which issued a statement about his condition after his wife and children had been to see him. In the statement, the hospital trust said: "Mr Hammond has suffered a significant brain injury. It's still giving cause for concern as it is still early after the injury. However, we are reasonably optimistic that he will make a good recovery."
Spinal injuries
The two most serious possibilities are that he has suffered damage as a result of his brain slamming against the inside of his skull during the crash. Because of that, arteries could have been ruptured. Doctors will also be fearful of spinal injuries. As well as his family, Hammond, 36, was visited by Top Gear co-presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May. Clarkson reported that Hammond had smiled briefly at him when he quipped: "The reason you're here is because you're a crap driver."

I really like this guy, a foil to the pompous, motorcycle-hating git Clarkson.
Bloody miracle the guy is alive at all.
Kinda reminds me of the story out of Arizona or Nevada a couple of years back about the fellow who bloted a jet engine to the roof of his station wagon, and opened it up in an open piece of road. Car got airborne at some point and basically vanished. Took weeks but the wreckage was eventually located beneath a black smudge on the side of a nearby mountain, the implication being he'd plowed into it a la Wile E Coyote.
Turned out to be a hoax rather than a Darwin Award candidate but the idea remains hugely entertaining.