Hammond Crash - Stating the Obvious

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Fri 14 Sep 2007 15:00
Hammond Crash - Stating the Obvious - Nsar
This post isn't about the rights and wrongs of the crash itself so hopefully won't be consigned to the Top Gear thread, it's about how it can take this long for investigators to conclude what any halfwit can see from the 30 seconds of footage - the tyre blew.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6994946.stm

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Fri 14 Sep 2007 15:03
Hammond Crash - Stating the Obvious - Sim-O
"But the 88-page document criticises the Top Gear team for not having anyone present "with sufficient knowledge to assess the adequacy" of safety checks."

Surely the people who own and run the car would be sufficient..?
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Fri 14 Sep 2007 15:24
Hammond Crash - Stating the Obvious - local yokel
>Surely the people who own and run the car would be sufficient..?

Why? - in fact for the very reason that they built it it should be checked by an independent engineer.

And there's more to safety than just the condition of the car. There's state of the track, the condition/experience of the safety kit and crews etc. Very complex when you look at it, and the BBC may well be right that no one person had a complete grasp of the whole thing.
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Fri 14 Sep 2007 15:40
Hammond Crash - Stating the Obvious - Neiltoo
I wonder what a "competed" person is.
Do the BBC have anyone "competed" in the use of English?
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Fri 14 Sep 2007 20:04
Hammond Crash - Stating the Obvious - s61sw
This is very much my personal view, from someone who has a basic knowledge of engineering, but when I first saw a picture of the car, I thought it looked like something Homer Simpson might have designed - it didn't inspire confidence at all.
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Fri 14 Sep 2007 20:06
Hammond Crash - Stating the Obvious - Chas{P}
This is a link to the organisation that owned and operated the car and they have a written a response to the HSE report:

www.primetimelandspeed.co.uk/

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Fri 14 Sep 2007 20:52
Hammond Crash - Stating the Obvious - s61sw
Thanks for the link Smokin' - some worthwhile info there.
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Sat 15 Sep 2007 23:39
Hammond Crash - Stating the Obvious - Happy Blue!
"PrimeTime still remain uncompensated for the loss of an Iconic vehicle, which had been lovingly cherished by the same hands for 25 years, and which still holds the outright British Land Speed Record."

Who should compensate them? I know that they appear to have done everything in their power to avoid such events, but surely they were insured?

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Wed 19 Sep 2007 22:56
Hammond Crash - Stating the Obvious (Not) - Chas{P}
The BBC hounded Primetime unmercifully over this in fact making one of the owners ill. Has changed my understood perception of their impartial policy forever.

Richard Hammond knew the risk, undertook thorough training but the BBC should have realised it was a potentially lethal risk he was taking.

Jet engines do not snap shut on power, you cannot de-clutch the drive and events happen very fast if things go wrong. 3,000 trouble free runs proved that what went wrong was completely unforseen.

Thank goodness Richard Hammond survived and will continue to do great work.
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