The earlier Top Gear speaker Chris Harris has really acknowledged he revealed security and safety issues to the BBC 3 months previous to the auto accident that left Andrew Flintoff with face accidents and broken ribs.
The earlier England cricketer, 46, was driving an open-topped three-wheel car when it turned and moved alongside the monitor at Dunsfold aerodrome, Surrey, in December 2022.
The BBC launched in 2015 it had “rested” Top Gear, which had really been working contemplating that 2002, for the direct future after Flintoff’s mishap and paid ₤ 9m in fee to him.
Speaking to the United States podcaster Joe Rogan, Harris asserted he suggested the BBC that there is likely to be a “serious injury” or “fatality” if security and safety therapies weren’t altered.
The 49-year-old acknowledged: “What was by no means spoken about was that three months earlier than the accident, I’d gone to the BBC and stated: ‘Unless you change something, someone’s going to die on this present.’
“I told them of my concerns from what I’d seen. As the most experienced driver on the show by a mile. I said: ‘If we carry on, at the very least we’re going to have a serious injury, at the very worst we’re going to have a fatality.’”
BBC Studios, that made Top Gear, has really described an unbiased examination in 2023 that positioned it had really adhered to market splendid approach but that there have been “learnings which would need to be rigorously applied” if this system returned.
Harris acknowledged his 2 co-presenters, Flintoff– known as Freddie– and Paddy McGuinness, have been “brilliant entertainers” but “didn’t have the experience I had in cars” and weren’t “qualified to make decisions”.
Speaking regarding Flintoff’s mishap, Harris acknowledged: “He wasn’t wearing a crash helmet. And if you do that, even at 25, 30 miles an hour, the injuries that you sustain are profound.”
He included: “I bear in mind the radio message that I heard. I heard somebody say this has been an actual accident right here. The automobile’s the other way up. So I ran to the window, regarded out and he wasn’t shifting.
“[Flintoff] wasn’t moving, so I thought he was dead. I assumed he was, then he moved. He’s a physical specimen, Fred. He’s a big guy … six-foot five, six-foot six … strong. And if he wasn’t so strong, he wouldn’t have survived.”
In a declaration in 2015, BBC Studios described an unbiased well being and wellness manufacturing analysis of Top Gear, which took a take a look at earlier intervals of this system.
“[The review] found that while BBC Studios had complied with the required BBC policies and industry best practice in making the show, there were important learnings which would need to be rigorously applied to future Top Gear UK productions,” a consultant acknowledged.
“The report included a lot of suggestions to enhance approaches to security as Top Gear is a posh programme-making surroundings routinely navigating tight filming schedules and impressive editorial expectations – challenges typically skilled by long-running exhibits with a longtime on- and off-screen crew.
“Learnings included a detailed action plan involving changes in the ways of working, such as increased clarity on roles and responsibilities and better communication between teams for any future Top Gear production.”
Flintoff has really contemplating that gone again to most people eye, rejoining the backroom personnel of the England guys’s cricket group for his or her T20 assortment versus the West Indies, and as head teacher of the Northern Superchargers in The Hundred competitors. He moreover shot the BBC docudrama Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams on Tour.
