The Daily Mirror has reported that Top Gear front-man Jeremy Clarkson has been insured in a head-on car crash. The injury occurred during the filming of the BBC version of  Top Gear.

Information on the car Clarkson was driving or other circumstances about the crash are not given. According to Clarkson it was his first serious road traffic accident in 31 years.

Clarkson, 48, used some wonderful Clarksonian descriptions to explain his injuries: “My right index finger looked like a burst sausage, my left shin was fatter than my thigh and my back felt like someone had driven over it with a pile-driver.”

This is not the first Top Gear accident. In 2006, his co-host Richard Hammond survived a 315mph crash, also while filming.

Yesterday, from their Cotswolds home in Chipping Norton, Clarkson’s wife Frances said: “My husband is fine.”

[ Source: Daily Mirror ]