Farewell, Top Gear! Without Freddie Flintoff, you were always doomed | Top Gear

A car that has been running for 46 years would either be deemed a classic or branded unsafe. Top Gear, which at its peak would have aspired to the former, has finished as the latter, “Rested for the foreseeable future” by the BBC. This, it seems, is because the motoring series would struggle to meet duty of care or insurance requirements after one of its presenters, Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff, was badly injured in a crash last December.