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Richard Hammond’s wife Mindy predicted his horror crash and may ban him from returning to The Grand Tour
RICHARD Hammond's wife Mindy has revealed she predicted his horror crash in Switzerland.
The Grand Tour star was left with severe leg injuries after crashing off a hill in Switzerland, and today Mindy told she saw it coming and called before the smash to check he was OK.
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"I actually called Richard on the day before which I don't usually do, ever," Mindy told hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield.
"Then the day of the accident I call him and then there was a phone call and he said, 'I'd had a bit of a shunt'."
When she was told about the crash, Mindy was out shopping with her daughter and revealed she went into shock and carried on looking for shoes.
"I did go quite a bit funny which I've never done before," she said.
"You just have to keep doing something," she added after revealing her daughters thought she had "gone funny" at the news.
But with Richard revealing he will be back at work within a matter of weeks, Mindy said she has considered banning him from returning - but won't really hold him to it.
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"I don't think about it, I can't think about it. I just think, 'Oh he's gone to work'.
"I did say three strikes and you're out - you've had two goes."
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Meanwhile Richard admitted he thought he would die in the crash, his second while filming car shows.
He said: "You do but those moments are not uncommon to people and yeah I did think, 'Oh it's gone badly'.
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"I've probably spent more time upside down in cars than many.
"I remember thinking I really want to be somewhere else, that was the first thing as I needed to call Mindy."
Worried that he would have a repeat of his brain injuries he suffered in the last crash, he added: "I remember lying on the ground and reciting things I'd done that day, I was just checking, running a systems check almost.
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But while his brain has come out unscathed, he has lost one thing that he joked he couldn't afford to lose - height.
"I've lost seven millimetres of height in this knee. I can't be sparing that."
Describing it as his swiss-army knee, he said it would be fixed within a few months, with him banned from walking on it for a few months, and banned totally from running for a year-and-a-half.
He added: "I'll be driving again, it's week not months.
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"I think for once we were in danger of being on time, even being early, so we've got a lot of stuff we've already shot.
"So it might be moving a film or two but even if we have to do that it won't change anything."
"I might go a bit slowly next time I'm on a Swiss mountain but that's it..." he said.
Mindy added: "I've got two teenage girls and a nine-year-old man.
"Don't do it again."
His daughter then added that she wouldn't mind him going back to work as long as he didn't crash again.
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