The car flipped when one of the front tyres failed. After having to be cut from the vehicle, Richard was rushed to hospital and was lucky to survive the accident.
As a result of the damage sustained, the father-of-two would later reveal that he experienced depression, paranoia and memory loss.
Nearly ten years later, during The Grand Tour filming, he had another brush with death, after his Rimac concept one supercar crashed and burst into flames down a Swiss mountainside.
He opened up about how he no longer wishes to perform such stunts due to his wife Mindy, 56, and daughters Izzy, 21 and Willow, 18.
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