Andrew Flintoff ‘thought he had died’ in Top Gear crash

Andrew Flintoff has given his first story of the car accident he was while filming Top Gear, saying that he thought “dead” after immediately.

The television player turned into Crickt player from England suffered serious facial and rib injuries when the three -wheeled car driving for the BBC motoring program rolled in 2022.

Speaking in a new Disney+documentary, ‘Freddie’ Flintoff said that despite the trauma, “remember everything about it.”

“I thought I was dead, because I was aware, but I could see anything,” he recalled.

“I was thinking, is that? Is that? Do you know what I mean? Only black for the rest of my days?

“My hat came to my eyes, so I raised my hat and thought, no, I am not [dead]I am on the track of Gear Gear, this is not heaven. “

Flintoff then looked down to see blood and said his “greatest fear” was that he had no face left.

“I thought my face had come out. I was calculated to death.”

The memory of being in “agony” for between half an hour and 40 minutes arrived an air ambulance and was tasks for the hospital.

The incident took place on December 13, 2022 on the Top Gear test track in Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey.

He was driving an open roof Morgan when he turned and slid, dragging it along the filming of the runway.

Speaking in the documentary, he described how time seemed to decrease as the car overturned, and how his fast reactions as a Crick player allowed him to move his head in an attempt to avoid equally worse injuries.

“As I started to pass, I looked at the ground and knew it, if they hit me here on the side [of the head] Then I will break my neck, or if they hit me in the temple, I am dead. The best chance is to go mouth.

“And then I remember hitting [the ground] And my head was beaten, “he added.” But then they dragged me, and the car approached, and I overcome the back of the car, and then [I got] He threw mouth on the track about 50 m under the car. And then I hit the grass and then [it] Turned back. “

The surgeon Jahrad Haq, who treated Flintoff, told the documentary that the injuries were “very complex”: a mixture of hard and soft tissue lesions, broken teeth, lost teeth and elements of the bone of the upper jaw that also fractures and displaced.

“He lost a really significant portion of his upper lip, skin and part of the underlying muscle, and also his lower lip,” he said.

Haq said the injuries were among the “first five” in terms of gravity of those he had seen during his career.

Reflecting on recovery, Flintoff said “he didn’t think he had to overcome” order.

“This sounds horrible. Part of me wants to have been killed. Part of me thinks I would like to have died,” he added.

“I didn’t want to commit suicide. I don’t want to confuse both things. I didn’t want, but thinking, this would have a lot of bone …

“Now I try to take the attitude, you know what, the sun will come out tomorrow, and then my children will still give me a hug, and I am probably now in a better place.”

Flintoff, one of the most successful Cricket players in England, said he is previously “loving” his return to the sports coach of Los Leones in England: the development team under the Male Cricket team in England.

Flintoff’s wife, Rachael, told the documentary that his return to sport was crucial on the road to recovery.

“When Andrew needed him more, Crick was there for him,” he said. “It sounds a bit strange to say it, a little above saying, but I think Cricket saved him. He gave him a reason to be, again.”

The 47 -year -old man also returned to television last year with a second series of his BBC program Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams, who saw him take a team of young Crick players from his hometown or Preston, a year after his.

The acclaimed series is in favor of a BAFTA television award in the category of Acts Series next month.

He was also host of a reset program or Games Bullseye games on Christmas, which will return for a complete series at the end of this year.

In 2023, the BBC “rested” from the upper team for the planned future. A financial agreement was also reached with Flintoff.

The documentary, entitled Flintoff, is on Disney+ on Friday, April 25.