A new Disney+ documentary about former England cricketer and TV presenter Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff is to air for the first time this week. Named Flintoff, the film will look at the impact of his serious car crash while filming BBC motoring show Top Gear in 2022, as well as his career prior to the event, which saw him win two Ashes series. The documentary will be released on Friday, April 25 and will show the Preston-born star’s return to cricket after the crash at the Top Gear test track in Surrey. • Read more: Andrew Flintoff admits wishing he had died during recovery from Top Gear crash Speaking about the 90-minute film, the 47-year-old said: “Cricket’s always been a massive part of my life, shaping who I am. “Looking back on the highs and the lows, including the challenges I’ve faced since my accident, has been a real reminder of why my career in the sport has meant so much.” The documentary, which will premiere exclusively on the streaming platform, has been directed by John Dower and executive-produced by Andrew Mackenzie and Naomi Templeton for South Shore, as we Flintoff himself, and executive-produced for Disney+ by Sean Doyle, the company’s executive director of unscripted. But what happened to him? Here is everything we know: Flintoff was involved in a horror crash while filming Top Gear for the BBC. The England cricketer-turned-TV presenter sustained serious facial and rib injuries when the three-wheeler car he was driving for the motoring programme rolled over in 2022. The incident took place on December 13, 2022, at Top Gear's test track at Dunsfold Park Aerodrome in Surrey. He was driving an open-topped Morgan Super 3 when it flipped and slid, dragging him along the track during filming. Speaking in the new Disney+ documentary, Flintoff said that, despite the trauma, he "remembers everything about it". He said: "I thought I was dead, because I was conscious but I couldn't see anything.” Surgeon Jahrad Haq, who treated Flintoff, told the documentary the injuries were "very complex" – a mixture of hard- and soft-tissue injuries, broken teeth, lost teeth and elements of the upper jawbone that were also fractured and displaced. He "lost a really significant portion of his upper lip – the skin and some of the underlying muscle – and also his lower lip," he said. Mr Haq said the injuries were in the "top five" in terms of severity of those he had seen during his career. Flintoff first spoke about the crash publicly in the second series of his cricketing show, Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams, saying it was “a lot harder than I thought” to shake off the impact, and disclosing he had struggled with anxiety, nightmares and flashbacks. The star has even admitted that a part of him wished he had died after his crash. During the documentary, he says at one stage: “After the accident, I didn’t think I had it in me to get through. This sounds awful … part of me wishes I’d been killed. Part of me thinks, I wish I’d died. “I didn’t want to kill myself … I wouldn’t mistake the two things. “I was not wishing, I was just thinking, ‘This would have been so much easier’. “Now I try to take the attitude that the sun will come up tomorrow and my kids will still give me a hug. I’m probably in a better place now.” The BBC “rested” Top Gear for the foreseeable future in 2023 after reaching a financial settlement with Flintoff, with the agreement reportedly worth £9m. He has made a steady return to the public eye since. Flintoff rejoined England’s backroom staff for their T20 series against the West Indies earlier this year and, in September, the England Lions named him as head coach.