The rapid recovery of Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond after his high-speed car crash has amazed the public and medical experts.

Only nine days after his 300mph jet-powered car crashed during filming, Mr Hammond is walking and talking and off emergency care.

But his progress over the next six months is likely to be much slower and the outcomes less clear, say doctors.

Dr. John Freeland, consultant neurosurgeon from the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust, said it was too early too tell what the long-term future would hold.

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