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Footage reveals moments before 27-year-old camera assistant Sarah Jones was struck and killed by an oncoming train.
- News Corp Australia
- 03 Nov 2014
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Sarah Jones, 27, was killed on set of the Allman Brothers biopic Midnight Rider. Source: NewsComAu
VIDEO taken moments before production assistant Sarah Jones was killed on the set of the Allman Brothers biopic Midnight Rider has aired on US news program 20/20.
Jones, 27, was killed in February when a train sped along tracks in Georgia, where the production was shooting a dream sequence for the film.
On Friday, TV producers in the US broadcast harrowing footage taken from a camera inside the locomotive as it sped down the track towards the production.
The video, shown once at normal speed and then slowed down, shows actors William Hurt and Wyatt Russell running off the trestle three seconds before impact.
In the report, it is noted that a hospital bed was placed across the tracks for a dream sequence and it was that prop that killed Jones.
Tragic ... Sarah Jones, 27, was killed on set of the Allman Brothers biopic Midnight Rider. Source: NewsComAu
Her parents’ lawyer Jeff Harris said: “The train hits the bed and the bed flies up and apparently a portion of the hospital bed strikes Sarah and pushes her into the train.”
The program also featured on-set photographs, the emergency call plus testimonials from hairstylist Joyce Gilliard, who was also injured during the incident, and Jones’ parents Richard and Elizabeth.
Production was halted following the accident and the project has since stalled.
Director Randall Miller, his producer wife Jody Savin, executive producer Jay Sedrish and first assistant director Hillary Schwartz are facing a civil lawsuit from Jones’ parents plus criminal charges for involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespass.
They have pleaded not guilty to the counts and are due to stand trial in March.
Rocker Gregg Allman, a producer on the film, was dropped from the civil lawsuit on Thursday.
