Thread: The Hamster not to blame,,,,,,,,

"Liability in Hammond crash falls on dragster maker, BBC"

Posted Jun 25th 2007 2:35PM by Jonathon Ramsey
Filed under: Etc., Euro

"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."

Funny how the Nanny State has to find someone to blame. If the tyre went bang, which it did, why not blame the tyre? Or blame the runway surface, or the air temperature in the tyre and outside the tyre? Or the wheel/rim? Which was maybe having a disagreement with the tyre?

Or all those guys, long dead, who started this race for enormous speed?

Or Hamsters parents for having him in the first place, then exposing him to the possibilities of dangerous activity?

Or Jeremy Clarkson - no particular reason - but just because he wasn't there...

Poor Hamster had a crash - it happens....

GQ