Freddie Flintoff taken to hospital after accident while filming Top Gear
Andrew Flintoff has been taken to hospital after being involved in accident while filming Top Gear, the BBC has confirmed.
The former Lancashire and England cricketer, turned popular TV personality and presenter – who is more commonly known as ‘Freddie’ – was filming at Top Gear’s test track at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey on Tuesday morning when he was involved in an accident to which he sustained injuries that required hospital treatment.
His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening, and a BBC spokesperson said details would be confirmed “in due course”.
It is also understood that the accident did not happen at high speed.
The BBC explained in a statement: “Freddie was injured in an accident at the Top Gear test track this morning, with crew medics attending the scene immediately [and] he has been taken to hospital for further treatment.
“We will confirm more details in due course.”
This is not the first time Flintoff has been involved in an accident since he began presenting the long-running BBC factual entertainment programme back in 2019 alongside co-hosts Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris.
He also crashed into a market stall in Mansfield in Nottinghamshire in February 2019, and then, in September of the same year, he crashed yet again during a drag race while he was filming at Elvington Airfield in Yorkshire – but he walked away from the latter unharmed.
Top Gear fans will probably also remember that former host Richard Hammond was notably involved in a serious crash at the same airfield in 2006, which left him in a coma.
Since retiring from international cricket back in 2010, Flintoff had one professional bout as a boxer, before venturing into TV where he became a team captain on Sky’s A League of Their Own, and was also a contestant on the Australian version of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, going on to be he crowned king of the jungle.
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He has also taken to acting – appearing in BBC drama Love, Lies and Records in 2017 – and singing in Fat Friends The Musical too.
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