Proving he's as bull-headed as we suspected, Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson was reportedly in a head-on collision during filming for the show. According to a report by the UK's Mirror, the injury occurred during filming of the BBC version of Top Gear.

The story doesn't divulge the circumstances of the crash or what the presenter was driving during the incident, but according to Clarkson, the head-on collision was his first serious crash in 31 years.

Top Gear's front-man described his injuries in typical Clarksonian style thusly: "My right index finger looked like a burst sausage, my left shin was fatter than my thigh and my back felt like someone had driven over it with a pile-driver."

In 2006, his co-host Richard Hammond survived a 315mph crash, also while filming.

Yesterday, from their Cotswolds home in Chipping Norton, Clarkson's wife Frances said: "My husband is fine."

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Good lord, "someoneelse." Just tell them he smashed a truck head-on into (and sort of through) a brick wall.

Dave , November 17, 2008

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It was a stunt for the first episode of the new season of TopGear. I won't say anything else to not reveal anything else to those why may not have seen it.

someoneelse , November 14, 2008

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I STILL say its a small price to pay
for being one of the luckiest bas**rds alive!

LOOK at what this guy gets to drive!

AAAAGH!

TimmayUSA , November 06, 2008

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