Hammond, 47, was taking part in the Bergrennen Hemberg, a mountain-side hillclimb event in St Gallen, for the Amazon TV series The Grand Tour.

Photos show his 1000bhp Rimac Concept One electric sportscar upside down and burnt out, with multiple fire engines and ambulances on the scene.

Local Police confirmed that one person had been airlifted to hospital following the crash, following which a Tweet from The Grand Tour confirmed that Hammond had escaped serious injury.

Crashed Rimac Concept One driven by Richard Hammond Photo by: The Grand Tour

Previous accidents in TV filming

Hammond escaped injury earlier this year following a motorbike fall in Mozambique, and this incident comes 11 years after he suffered serious head injuries in a jet-powered dragster crash while filming for the BBC’s Top Gear.

He made a full recovery from that, despite spending two weeks in a coma.