Automotive journalist Paul Frère seriously injured

**Santa Fe** · #1 (**permalink**) 09-20-2006, 08:55 PM

http://www.autoblog.com/2006/09/20/b...e-seriously-i/

Not a good day for automotive journalists.

Edited by - Santa Fe on 09/20/2006 4:36:38 PM

**mpollard** · #2 (**permalink**) 09-20-2006, 10:06 PM

Definitely a dark day for automotive journalism. Paul Frère's accident also demonstrates the very real dangers of running at the Ring.

**KBS911** · #3 (**permalink**) 09-21-2006, 12:41 AM

Bad news indeed. He is truly one of the good ones, with such a passion for automobiles. I had no idea he was that old. Iwish him well.

**mpollard** · #4 (**permalink**) 09-21-2006, 04:41 PM

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<p align="justify"><em nd="1">(Thu 21 Sep 06)[/i]
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Two well-known motoring journalists are in hospital after being involved in major accident this week. Television presenter Richard Hammond (pictured)was airlifted to Leeds General Infirmary after he was removed from the wreckage of what North Yorkshire Police have referred to as 'an overturned jet car' which he had been driving at Elvington airfield.
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<p align="justify" nd="4">Hammond, who is believed to have been travelling at well over 200mph when the accident happened, is in critical condition after suffering what the police have described as 'serious injuries'.
<p align="justify" nd="5">Word also reaches us from reader David Adolphus that renowned Belgian journalist Paul Frère has been injured while road testing a Honda Civic Type-R in Germany. Frère, now aged 89, has written about motoring and motorsport for decades, and with the highest authority; he competed in Formula 1 races in the 1950s, won the 1960 Le Mans 24 Hour race in a Ferrari co-driven by Olivier Gendebien and was one of several drivers to take part in the 1966 film <em nd="6">Grand Prix[/i].
<p align="justify" nd="7">Frère is now in a hospital near Frankfurt with seven broken ribs, a fractured pelvis and punctured lungs, but according to Belgian online magazine <em nd="8">La Dernière Heure[/i] (www.dhnet.be) he hopes to return to his home in Nice some time in October.
<p align="justify" nd="9">Our thoughts are with Hammond, Frère and their friends and families at this difficult time.