Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has said that the BBC was right to show footage of his near-fatal 288mph car crash. The 37-year-old, who was in a coma for two weeks after the horrific accident, told Star magazine that he was amazed to see the crash film. "If it didn't kill me at the time, it wasn't going to kill me just watching it. But to see details - like the crash helmet that saved my life and the harness that stopped me being smashed to pieces - took my breath away," he said, adding that he felt it was important that viewers were not shielded from the images. "It's a sensitive issue, but I think it would have been irresponsible for us not to show it. Things go wrong - that's how it is in the world." And he said that while his brain injury was extremely serious, he doesn't have a scratch on him. "Not a mark! Nothing, honestly. I'm very, very lucky. There were no physical complications at all, it was just my brain." "After the crash I had post-traumatic amnesia, which meant I had a five-second memory." The star, known to Top Gear fans as Hamster, has been overwhelmed by the support he has had from well-wishers. A whopping eight million viewers tuned in to see his return to the show and he has even become something of an unintentional heart-throb. "I don't understand it at all. My wife thinks it's hilarious."
