Buzz making way from sports arena have it that Spanish female Formula One test driver Maria De Villota was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after her Marussia car hit a parked truck at an airfield in eastern England.

The Marussia team said in a statement that De Villota, who was testing the car for the first time, was injured after completing an installation run at Duxford airfield at around 0810 GMT.

"Maria has been transferred to hospital. Once her medical condition has been assessed a further statement will be issued," the team added. East of England ambulance service spokesman Gary Sanderson said in a separate statement that the driver had "sustained life-threatening injuries" and was at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge.

Sources said the car "inexplicably accelerated" into the back of the team's parked support truck."The driver's helmet was impacted on the side of the truck," he reported. "It just happened suddenly, a very shocking incident. The car slowed down as you see happens during a grand prix, for it to then be reversed into the pits which were actually a tent. But at the last second it just suddenly accelerated again so by the time it hit the truck, it was doing 30 or 40 miles an hour."

Well, here at Bolegaindia we wish De Villota a speedy recovery!

Source: TNN