Friday 5th August 2011

Rowan Atkinson Crashes McLaren F1

Comic actor and well-known car nut injured in supercar crash

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Rowan Atkinson is in hospital after crashing his McLaren F1.

The accident happened yesterday evening on the A605 in Cambridgeshire. Atkinson is believed to have lost control of the vehicle, before spinning off the road and hitting a tree.

Although the car caught fire (though from the picture, posted by a PHer and picked up by both the Daily Mail and the Sun) it doesn't seem that serious), it is reported that the 56-year-old actor walked away from the scene and was looked after by another motorist.

He is thought to be suffering from a minor shoulder injury and is expected to be released from hospital later today.

There's no word on the state of the car, however, other than the fact that Cambridgeshire fire crews brought the fire 'under control' by 8.13pm.

We wish Mr Atkinson a speedy recovery - and just as importantly we hope the car's okay...

Ps - since we were having our tea when the news broke, there's already a thread running on the incident, which you can join in with here.

[stimpy888]

Plonker!

[pb]

"though from the picture, posted first by a PHer it doesn't seem that serious)"


Yey, i made the news

[cookie1600]

"Oh, God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more"

[JumpinJack]

So is this the second time he has done this?

[Life Saab Itch]

PH type people (Riggers, Pete, Garlick) with these threads where you put an article up with a link in it to an existing thread, would it not be better to merge the two? ie put the article at the top of the existing thread.

PH has done this before (the Henry Surtees thread), it would seem to be a good way to stop page 1 of the relevant forum from getting clogged up.


Feel free to put this post in website feedback in it's own thread if you don't want it in this one.

[trickymex]

Hope he's ok, equally I hope the mac can be repaired!!

[y2blade]

I'm glad the driver is ok....the car can and will be fixed

[The Danimal]

Poor lad. glad he's ok though. I love that he uses this car properly. Much better than it gathering dust in a climate controlled garage like a lot of F1s. The fact that he's crashed it a couple of times makes it even better... A proper enthusiast. Keep up the good work.

[Nuttah]

If this was a chav and a corsa the thread would end up very different,prejudice hypocrites

[billzeebub]

he has had that from new and was espousing it's virtues recently on Topgear..that car, beautiful as it is, has been responsible for a lot of carnage on the road over the years

[Jonny TVR]

Nuttah said:

If this was a chav and a corsa the thread would end up very different,prejudice hypocrites

Boring!

[S3_Graham]

Wish him a speedy recovery! Screw the car.

[Robmarriott]

IPSGA.

[lazyitus]

Nuttah said:

If this was a chav and a corsa the thread would end up very different,prejudice hypocrites

To be fair, we all know that Rowan Atkinson can drive. Nearly every chav probably can't. Accidents can happen to anybody.

[maxdb]

He never seems to have much luck with that car - glad he's ok tho.

[nsm3]

Nuttah said:

If this was a chav and a corsa the thread would end up very different,prejudice hypocrites

By using that particular "C" word, are you not yourself perpetuating this class distinction, that you seem so keen to rail against?

[spiritof'76]

To be honest i don't think he's ever really got to grips with this driving lark

Seems to me he makes some fundamental mistakes

Edited by spiritof'76 on Friday 5th August 11:47

[zorba_the_greek]

maxdb said:

He never seems to have much luck with that car - glad he's ok tho.

Vin number must be 666

[Riggers]

Life Saab Itch said:

PH type people (Riggers, Pete, Garlick) with these threads where you put an article up with a link in it to an existing thread, would it not be better to merge the two? ie put the article at the top of the existing thread.

PH has done this before (the Henry Surtees thread), it would seem to be a good way to stop page 1 of the relevant forum from getting clogged up.


Feel free to put this post in website feedback in it's own thread if you don't want it in this one.

You're quite right. In fact I originally intended to do just that. Unfortunately I'm a bit of an idiot and I attached a new thread to this article without thinking. By the time I'd realised what I'd done, the thread was already going...

[Dagnut]

How many people genuinely use a 630bhp hyper car as a daily driver? You have to respect him for that...Th only thing I care about is we'll have to suffer another terrible movie now too recoup the loss