Chris Evans TukTuk crash leaves two passengers injured at CarFest in Hampshire

Two feminine passengers had been left with minor accidents after former Prime Gear presenter Chris Evans crashed a TukTuk at his personal occasion.

The British radio host, 57, was driving the automated rickshaw automobile when it overturned at CarFest close to Basingstoke, Hampshire.

In photographs and video taken at the scene, Evans could be seen driving the TukTuk whereas carrying a vibrant orange jumper and matching bucket hat, moments earlier than the crash.

Different photographs present him at the scene aiding competition officers after the incident.

An announcement shared with The Impartial confirmed that the two passengers sustained minor accidents and had been attended to by CarFest’s on-site medical staff.

“On Saturday morning at CarFest the Tuk Tuk which Chris Evans was driving overturned on the monitor as Chris modified route,” a consultant mentioned.

“The two passengers on board had minor accidents and the CarFest on-site medical staff attended to help.”

Evans based CarFest in 2011. Billed as “the most important household fundraising competition in the UK”, it raises cash for various youngsters’s charities, together with the Teenage Most cancers Belief and Kids in Want.

This yr’s occasion was attended by one other former Prime Gear presenter, Richard Hammond, in addition to actor Rob Brydon, who beforehand appeared in Prime Gear’s “Star in a Moderately Priced Automobile” problem.

Evans shared various photographs, together with of Hammond and Brydon, from his official Instagram web page in the course of the occasion.

The TukTuk incident comes shortly after Evans introduced reside on air that he has been recognized with pores and skin most cancers.

On Monday 21 August, the presenter advised listeners tuned into his Virgin Radio present that the illness had been found in its early levels, and medical doctors believed he ought to make a full restoration after present process therapy subsequent month.

“It’s a melonoma,” he mentioned. “There’s this phrase referred to as a malignant melanoma – you recognize when you get one thing and you discover out all about it – that could be a redundant phrase as a result of if it’s a melanoma, it’s malignant.”

He added: “But it surely’s been caught so early, simply so you recognize, that it ought to be fully treatable.”

Evans, who’s a operating fanatic, joked that he gained’t have the ability to run for “a month afterwards”, including: “So I’m going to do nothing however run till then. Is that OK?”

He beforehand had a most cancers scare in 2019, revealing at the time he took a pores and skin most cancers take a look at after discovering uncommon marks on his physique earlier than Christmas.