No Norman it isn't.
In a situation where Richard Hammond may, or may not be, paralysed from the neck down for the rest of his life*, spending time worrying about irrelevancies such as whether or not he was the fact trying to break a record at the time, shows a rather warped sense of priorities, to say the least. At least among people such as the BBC, and others, who could be expected to be concerned for his welfar
michael adams
* If there's any possibility of damage to the spinal cord - his brain is o.k. as Hammond talked - and no obvious signs of internal organ damage - fractures can always be reset, then Hammond may well be kept under sedation and immobile for a considerable period of time so as to allow any nerve endings to heal of their own accord. He will be kept in intensive care and fed through a tube during that time. But this is no reflection on his actual condition. If they break irretrievably and fail to heal then depending on how close to his neck they are, he will be paralysed to a greater or lesser extent. Nobody will know the extent of his injuries, if any, until he's taken out of sedation. Same with organ damage. If treatment of that can be postponed then it will be for as long as possible.
