Freddie Flintoff recalls second-by-second how cricket helped him survive horror Top Gear crash Flintofff, Disney
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00:00I remember everything about it in some ways it'd been easier if I'd gone
00:09unconscious and then been unconscious for a week or two and then you wake up and
00:13your stitches are out and everything but I remember everything
00:19I can't think about it now I'm back in that car
00:23there's a three-wheeler there's a reinforced windscreen right there and a bar which goes
00:31about half of my back so I'm exposed we're probably doing about a 40 45 they're showing
00:39me how to get the car going sideways and the wheel came over the front
00:53it's a funny thing low on a car because there's a point of no return and everything slows down
01:02it's so weird
01:05no I'm sure I get questions out of people but I used to play cricket I used to bat you get
01:140.4 of a second to make your mind up where the ball's going what shot you're gonna play how
01:19you're gonna move your feet and as it started going over I walked to the ground and I knew
01:28if I get an ear on the side I'm gonna break my neck I'll get it on a tempo I'm dead conscious
01:35for a week or two and then you wake up and your stitches are out and everything but I remember
01:38everything
01:40I think about it now I'm back in that car
01:45there's a three-wheeler there's a reinforced windscreen about there and a bar which goes
01:54about half of my back so I'm exposed
01:56we're probably doing about a 40 45 they're showing me how to get the car going sideways
02:04and the wheel came over the front
02:08it's a funny thing rolling a car because there's a point of no return and everything slows down
02:25it's so weird
02:29now I'm sure I get questions out of people but I used to play cricket I used to bat you get 0.4 of a second
02:39to make your mind up where the ball's going what shot you're gonna play how you're gonna move your feet
02:44and as it started going over I walked to the ground and I knew if I get an ear on the side
02:54then I broke my neck I get on a tempo I'm dead my best chance is go first down
03:01and then I remember hitting and oh and then my head got hit but then I got dragged out and the car went over and I went over the back of the car and then pulled first down on the runway
03:19about 50 metres underneath the car and then hit the grass and then flipped back in
03:26I thought I was dead because I was conscious but I couldn't see anything
03:33I was thinking is that it? Is that it? You know what I mean? It was like the rest of me
03:46I had a game over my eyes so I pulled my hat up and I thought no I'm not
03:54I couldn't get a track I said no I haven't
03:57but yeah it was
04:00yeah