TOP Gear presenter Chris Harris is counting the cost of colliding with a pick-up truck in his black Porsche 911 GT3 Touring car on the Wye Valley road near Tintern.

The star, who lives with his family in the local area, was working for the BBC show’s magazine at the time of the lunchtime crash and described the accident as “unavoidable”.

“Police confirmed speed wasn’t a factor. And I wasn’t the one issued a penalty notice,” he tweeted the day after the Monday, November 12, accident.

"Came around a corner yesterday to find a pick-up doing a 3-point turn broadside, in the middle of the road. Unavoidable. Just one of those things. The Porsche 911 looked after us brilliantly. No one hurt, cars can be replaced.”

He also asked the “helpful chap in the white 64 plate Audi S3” who stopped to see if he and his passenger – a senior executive from the show’s magazine – were Ok so he could contact him to say thank you.

The BBC reported that the crash took place on the A466 at around 1.30pm. Nobody was injured, but both vehicles were damaged, with the Porsche left embedded in the side of the truck between the front and back wheels.

Witnesses said the pick-up truck, thought to be a Nissan Navara, was performing a three-point turn when the Porsche collided with it.

A Top Gear spokesperson said: “We can confirm that Chris Harris was involved in a car accident in Wales earlier today whilst working on a feature for Top Gear magazine.

“Chris, his passenger, and the driver of the other car, were unhurt. Police were called to the scene.”

Harris will be appearing in the 26th series of Top Gear next year, its last with Friends legend Matt LeBlanc.

Both have presented Top Gear since 2016 after joining the team that replaced Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May.