To mark the 15th anniversary of the founding of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance, TV star Richard Hammond has spoken with ITV Calendar's Gaynor Barnes about how the charity saved his life after he crashed a car while travelling at 300mph.
TV presenter Richard Hammond has told ITV Calendar the generosity of the public coupled with his wife's actions, helped to find £250,000 for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA).
As flowers flooded into the hospital for the critically-injured TV host, his wife Mindy asked that people donated to the YAA instead and this helped to buy the charity a second helicopter.
He paid a personal tribute to fundraisers at the charity's annual dinner recently.
"I am told I have done my bit to raise a few pounds, Just to be quite clear I am not doing that again!
Hammond, 45, was driving a jet-powered car at RAF Elvington in York in September 2006 when he careered off course and crashed.
Yorkshire Air Ambulance airlifted him within an hour - dubbed the vital time by medics to boost life saving chances - of the incident and flew him to Leeds General Infirmary.
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