BBC bosses ignored warnings that “someone is going to die” on Top Gear by Freddie Flintoff’s co-presenter months before the crash that ended the programme.
Chris Harris, 49, who presented the show alongside Flintoff and witnessed the aftermath of the incident, in which the former England cricket captain’s Morgan 3 Wheeler overturned, said his concerns were swept under the rug.
“I’d like to say I hadn’t expected it, but I had,” he said. “Three months before the accident, I’d gone to the BBC and said: ‘Unless you change something, someone’s going to die on this show.’ I did the right thing, I went to the BBC, and I found out that no one had taken me very seriously. I did a bit of digging afterwards.