pfft, that was never confirmed, a rumour most likely started by opponents of the show (of which there is a vast minority in comparison to the quarter of a billion fans around the world - and that's the officially counted fans).
The BBC are/were doing some investigation, but it looks like (last time I heard) it was a simple tire blow out - which you can't forsee. I heard they were gonna do a kinda documentary or special about the whole incident showing us exactly how much care they put into the feature which went so wrong due to a (seems to still be the case) freak accident.
I loved Clarkson's take on it and people yammering on about "speed kills" - Hamster crashed at 300mph and survived, so speed doesn't kill anymore than any other cause of a crash. 
Also, the producer, Clarkson and May said they'd refuse to do anymore Top Gear without Hammond and that they wouldn't tone their show down to suit the bleetering thoughts of a minority of people who don't even watch the show.
Besides, the BBC would be utterly retarded to let Top Gear slip from their grasp, it's won a friggin' Emmy and recently a National Television Award and like I said - quarter of a billion viewers ('official' viewers) around the world in 80 to 100 countries. It's one of their biggest money draws, the Beeb would be foolish beyond belief to sh*t-can it.
Wooooo! Can't wait for Top Gear to return.
Their matter-of-fact take on politics is also refreshing in this climate of BS and PC-ness. They also come up with some solid info for the other side of the environmental debate, such as bleetering on about humans causing damage via CO2 is bollocks because 95% of CO2 is produced by the earth itself via natural means.
Also, methane being a far more potent environment-killing agent than CO2 (I have the numbers somewhere, I wrote them down, but forget off the top of my head) - anyway, basically, what one cow farts in a day beats a Land Rover driven for 10,000 miles over the course of a year...just think about how many farting animals are on this planet...that is, in complete truth, the reason why New Zealand failed their climate-whatever-it-is target - all the sheep sh*t - seriously, it actually was.
It's simple - don't be wasteful - that's all you need to do, as well as find alternate and renewable energies that work (fuel cells look rather promising). This green stuff is getting out of hand, especially here on this pokey little island called the UK who can't make a damn bit of difference is two fat-ass-sized countries won't chip in their fair share (America and China ... among others). This "green" thing is just to make people feel less guilty about owning a car, or to make them feel good and smug about themselves (like those actually useless windmills on houses).
It's like with Labour, the only reason for green taxes is not to save the world, it's to rip more money out of you. That's the only reason any environmental issue gets the official nod in this world. It's a marketing scam bred by people who peddle the myth that mankind is the be-all and end-all of everything.
I'm sure the earth has been through a lot more turbulence on it's own before we came along - we are, after all, a momentary blip on earth's radar. To assume we're to blame for temperature rises is assinine and immensely arrogant - besides, it's been suggesting that the sun is actually burning brighter now than it used to - which seems like a pretty tight theory if it's the case, you turn up the heat and things get warmer, derrrrrh...
What was I on about? Oh yeah, Richard Hammond...
ssbib - I think you mean Richard Hammond. 
*additional*
Just heard the news from FinalGear, Clarkson was on BBC Radio 2 and said that Top Gear returns to our screens in the 3rd week of January (probably the 21st of January) and they will be showing the crash footage.
Roll on Top Gear!!!  How I love this show...
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Originally Posted by MinionZombie
... I'm such a Top Gear nerd) - especially as he'll most likely not be able to do stuff which puts him 'within' the event so-to-speak - so they'll no doubt make a joke out of that, have a special cordoned off area with hard hats and bubble wrap and all sorts to keep him out of danger, teehee.
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