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Top Gear stars 'lucky to be alive' after being caught in deadly storm while filming
Top Gear’s stars say they feel lucky to be alive.Freddie Flintoff, Chris Harris and Paddy McGuinness found themselves in serious danger while filming their latest series.During a jaunt in Britain, they became HGV drivers.Health and safety advisors had warned the trio they should scrap the stunt because of extreme weather.But they went ahead anyway, risking their lives in the process.Paddy, 48, said: “This was totally alien for all of us… to be in a vehicle so big and so powerful.“When you put your foot down, you’re going at 100mph plus. What made it even harder was that we were right in the middle of the big storm.“They said nobody should go out on the road and we were hurtling around in these high-sided HGVs.“It was a thrilling thing to see in the flesh, but I feel glad to have survived that one actually.”Freddie, 44, also took on a death-defying challenge on his own that saw him go down a bobsleigh track in a Sinclair C5 tricycle.The former cricketer is used to doing daring stunts for the show, but even he was nervous with this one.He said: “This year they’ve been upping the stakes.