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The December 2022 crash left Flintoff with reported broken ribs and facial injuries. Play with passion, play with pride, play with belief. Flintoff (second from left) worked with the England team last month. In February that year, Flintoff crashed into a market stall while filming the show but escaped unscathed. The former cricket star is not the only “Top Gear” host to have been involved in a high-speed crash while filming the show.
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London CNN —Former England cricket captain Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff has been hospitalized after an accident during filming of the popular motoring show “Top Gear.”The incident occurred at the Dunsfold Aerodrome track in Surrey, southern England, which features regularly in the BBC show. “Freddie was injured in an accident at the Top Gear test track yesterday morning – with crew medics attending the scene immediately,” a BBC spokesperson told CNN on Wednesday. Flintoff is not the first “Top Gear” host to be injured during filming. In 2006, Richard Hammond nearly died after losing control of a Vampire dragster that he had been driving at speeds of up to 288 miles per hour. In 2017, he was hospitalized after the electric supercar he was driving crashed and burst into flames.
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