Richard Hammond is still suffering the long term effects of his jet-powered crash on Top Gear in 2006, in which he suffered severe head injuries.
The 51-year-old presenter on The Grand Tour was in a coma for two weeks after the horrific 319mph dragster crash near York, while filming the BBC's petrolhead favourite with Jeremy Clarkson and James May.
The first smash was compounded 11 years later when he crashed a £2million supercar on a mountain in Switzerland.
This led to him breaking his leg and rib and Richard had a lengthy stay in hospital, with the TV presenter still having side effects from these two high profiles smashes today.
Jeremy Clarkson revealed when speaking to the Sunday Mirror that Richard still struggles with his memory as he continues to deal with the effects of the brain damage that he suffered.
Jeremy said: “Well it's not his fault , it is because he cannot drive and he went upside down and damaged his brain
“But you can tell him something and five seconds later it is gone out of his head.
“He has no capacity for remembering anything and some of it is because he is not interested in anything and some of it is because he has had brain damage.”
Richard had also told The Irish Times that his struggle for remembering things was due to his frontal lobe being injured in the crashes.
The TV star said : “When I was initially in recovery, because it was a frontal lobe injury, the doctor said one of the problems is what they call ‘lost-keys syndrome’.
“Years later I’d lose my keys and I’d think: it’s because of my brain injury. But, no, I’d just lost my keys. I’m 51.
“Now, I regularly go into a room and I can’t remember what I went into it for. But I no longer think: oh god, my brain isn’t working.”
Since the crashes, Richard said that he has suffered depression as he came to terms with his memory loss and that this has left him finding it hard to "connect emotionally".
It was later diagnosed that he was suffering from post-traumatic amnesia (PTA), which can occur after being unconscious for a period of time.
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