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Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff ‘Though He Had Died’ in Top Gear Crash

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Flintoff Needed Extensive Facial Surgery Following the Crash

Andrew Flintoff Has Given His First Account of the Car Crash He was in While Filming Top Gear, Saying He Thight He “was Dead” in the ImdiaTe Aftermath.

The English Cricketer-JuRNED-TV PRESENTER SUSTAIONED Serious Facial and Rib Injuries when the Three-Wheeler Car He was Driving for the BBC Motoring Programme Rolled Over in 2022.

Speaking in a New Disney+ Documentary, ‘Fredie’ Flintoff SAID that Despite The Trauma, He “Remembers Everything About it”.

“I Though I was Dead, BECUUSE I Was Conscious But I could see anything,” He recalled.

‘Frightned to Death’

“I was thinking, is that it? Is that it?

“My hat ca [dead]I’m on the top gear track, this is not heaven. “

Flintoff then Loged Download to See Blood, and Said His “Biggest Fear” was that he no longer haad a face left.

“I though my face had come off. I was Frightned to Death.”

He recalled Being in “AGNY” for Between Half an Hour and 40 Minutes Until an Air Ambulance Arrived and He was Taken to Hospital.

The Incident Took Place on 13 December 2022 at Top Gear’s Test Track at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey.

He was Driving An Open-Toped Morgan Super 3 when it flipped and slid, Dragging Him Along the Track During Filming.

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Flintoff Attended the Film’s Premiere in London This Week

Speaking in the doctor Even World Injuries.

“As it Started Going Over, I Looked at the Ground and I KNEW, if I get hit here on the Side [of the head] then I’ll Break My NECK, or if I get hit on the Temple I’m Dead. The Best Chance is to Go Face Download.

“And then I Remember Hitting [the ground] And my head Got Hit, “He Added.” But then I Got Dragged Out, and the Car Went Over, and I Went Over the Back of the Car, and then [I got] Pulled Face Download on the Runway About 50m Underneath The Car. And then I Hit the Grass and Then [it] Flipped back.

Surgeon Jahrad Haq, Who Treated Flintoff, Told the Dockumentary The Injuries Wr “Very Complex” – a mixture of hard and soft tissue injuries, broken teeth, Lost Teeth and Elements of the Upper Jaw Bone that Were also Fracture and displaced.

He “Lost A Really Signics PORTION of his Upper LIP – The Skin and Some of the Underlying Muscle – and Also His LOWER LIP,” He Said.

Mr Haq Said

‘Cricket Saved Him’

Reflecting on the recovery, flintoff said he

This Sounds Awful. Part of Me Wishes I’d Been Killed. Part of Me Thinks I Wish I’d Died, “He Added.

“I did’t will to kill myself.

“Now I Ty to Take the Attattude, You Know What, The Sun Will ComE Up Tomorrow, and then My Kids Will Still Give Me A Hug, and I’m Probably in A Better Place Now.”

One of England’s Most Sucessful Cricksteres, Flintoff Previously Said He Is “Loveing” His Return to the Sport Coaching England Lions – The Development Squad Underneath England Men’s Cricket Team.

Flintoff’s Wife Rachael Told the Dockumentary his Return to the Sport Was Crucial on the Road to Recovery.

“Where Andrew Needed it Mostt, Cricket was there for his,” She Said. “IT Sounds a Bit Weird Saying It, A Bit Over the Top to Say, But I Do Think Cricket Save Him. It Gave Him A Reason for Being, Again.”

The 47-Year-LED Also RTURNED to Television Last Year With a Second Series of His BBC Programme Fredi Flintoff’s Field of Dreams, Which Saw Him Take a Team of Young Crickstesers From his home of Prestton on A Tour of India, a year after his Crash.

The Accional Series Is up for a BAFTA Television Award in the Factual Series Category Next Month.

He also hostd a Robot of Darts Game Show Bulllseye Over Christmas, Whiche Will Return for a Full Series Later This year.

In 2023, the BBC “RSTED” Top Gear for the Foreseable Future. A Financial Settlement was also removed with flintoff.

The Dockumentary, Titled Flintoff, is on Disney+ From Frdy, 25 April.

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