Pedro_The_Swift
26th June 2007, 03:26 PM
"Liability in Hammond crash falls on dragster maker, BBC"
Posted Jun 25th 2007 2:35PM by Jonathon Ramsey (http://www.autoblog.com/bloggers/jonathon-ramsey)
Filed under: Etc. (http://www.autoblog.com/category/etc/), Euro (http://www.autoblog.com/category/euro/)
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"Britain's Health and Safety Executive faulted both the BBC and the makers of the Vampire dragster, Primetime Landspeed Engineering, for Richard Hammond's dastardly crash. The HSE said that the risk assessment that Primetime gave to the BBC didn't take into account that Hammond didn't have the necessary skills to pilot the car in an emergency. So the BBC, according to the HSE, should have given Hammond enough time to learn how to drive the car and also should have challenged the risk assessment it was given, but it did not.
Hammond crashed the dragster at 288 mph and spent five weeks in the hospital with brain injuries. He has since fully recovered. Neither the BBC nor Primetime, though, will be prosecuted."
Posted Jun 25th 2007 2:35PM by Jonathon Ramsey (http://www.autoblog.com/bloggers/jonathon-ramsey)
Filed under: Etc. (http://www.autoblog.com/category/etc/), Euro (http://www.autoblog.com/category/euro/)
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2007/06/hammon_crash_bbc_blamed.jpg (http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/ArticleDetail.aspx?ArticleID=41149&vf=26)
"Britain's Health and Safety Executive faulted both the BBC and the makers of the Vampire dragster, Primetime Landspeed Engineering, for Richard Hammond's dastardly crash. The HSE said that the risk assessment that Primetime gave to the BBC didn't take into account that Hammond didn't have the necessary skills to pilot the car in an emergency. So the BBC, according to the HSE, should have given Hammond enough time to learn how to drive the car and also should have challenged the risk assessment it was given, but it did not.
Hammond crashed the dragster at 288 mph and spent five weeks in the hospital with brain injuries. He has since fully recovered. Neither the BBC nor Primetime, though, will be prosecuted."