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Hammond Heads Home

LONDON (Reuters) - Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond was flown by helicopter from Leeds General Infirmary to a hospital nearer his home on Thursday, health officials said.
Hammond, 36, was transferred from the West Yorkshire hospital by air ambulance only eight days after he was seriously injured in a high-speed car crash.
"He is continuing to do well and was obviously stable enough to be moved," a Leeds General Infirmary spokeswoman said.

Hammond was taken to an undisclosed hospital near his Gloucestershire home, a BUPA spokeswoman added.
The father-of-two suffered a significant brain injury in the jet-powered car accident at an RAF airfield near York.
He was moved from a high dependency ward to a side-room on a general ward in the Leeds hospital on Saturday.
The accident was jointly investigated by police and the Health and Safety Executive.
The BBC has postponed the new series of Top Gear until Hammond has recovered.
Well-wishers have donated tens of thousands of pounds to a charity for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance, which airlifted the presenter to hospital.

posted by Steve @ Friday, September 29, 2006