Richard Hammond Still Doesn't Remember Crash

Richard Hammond revealed he still can�t remember the fortnight after his horror crash in his first TV interview since the accident.

The Top Gear presenter � who crashed a jet-powered car at almost 300mph during filming for the show earlier this year � told Jonathan Ross last night that he was completely recovered from the accident, but still had almost total memory loss of the aftermath.

He said, �I swore and then it went dark. I was driving and then it was two weeks later and I was in Leeds (in hospital).

"I have no recollection of that, or the first few weeks. I sort of heard stuff going on but I wasn't in it (a coma) for very long."

Hammond - who appeared on good form throughout the interview - raised laughs though when he explained the funny-side of one of the immediate side-effects of the crash.

"I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury,� he explained. �In hospital I was completely useless. I'd look at the menu and order my favourite, cottage pie. Five minutes later it arrived and I said, 'That's great, it's my favourite, how did you know?'�