Former Top Gear host Richard Hammond has escaped serious injury after a crash in Switzerland.

Mr Hammond was attending a car race when his vehicle, a Rimac electric supercar believed to be worth £2 million, left the road and mounted a grassy verge.

"It was the biggest crash I've ever seen and the most frightening ," Jeremy Clarkson tweeted on Saturday afternoon. "But incredibly, and thankfully, Richard seems to be mostly OK."

The Grand Tour tweeted: "Richard Hammond was involved in a serious crash after completing the Hemburg Hill Climb in Switzerland in a Rimac Concept One, an electric super car built in Croatia, during filming for The Grand Tour Season 2 on Amazon Prime, but very fortunately suffered no serious injury.