"Equally, there was evidence that the BBC had actively sought advice, been warned of the danger, yet allowed the experiment to proceed." "Indeed, in the finished piece, he rather prosaically observes, 'I wouldn't recommend this'. "It might be thought that someone of his intelligence and scientific background might have appreciated the risk. "On his own account to camera, the claimant was simulating a road traffic collision of the sort that commonly causes injury. She added: "I must say that I find it astonishing that anyone thought that this exercise was a sensible idea. Mrs Justice Yip said the BBC contended that "little more than a moderate whiplash injury with depressive symptoms could properly be attributed to the crash tests, such as would give rise to only modest damages". Stansfield said he had been left with a constellation of symptoms that had produced a significant decline in his health.
"The crashes were performed forwards and backwards twice each." "In the introduction to the piece, the claimant explains that he had calculated the experiment to give a similar crash profile to hitting a lamppost in a real car in an urban environment. The judge explained that he "was strapped into a rig like a go-cart which was propelled along a track into a post". Stansfield was filming an episode of Bang Goes The Theory, where he was playing the role of a human "crash test dummy".
"The results suggested he was performing at the level of a competitive athlete." "In 2012, the BBC required him to undergo a physical assessment before undertaking a project involving a human-powered aircraft, which he had designed. "There are clips of him balancing and walking on his hands and scaling a building using vacuum gloves he created.
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