Sarah Jones was working as a camera assistant on the Gregg Allman biopic Midnight Rider when she lost her life while the crew was filming a scene on some railroad tracks in February.
Last night, ABC News dug deeper into the story on 20/20, showing footage taken from the train moments before it ran over Jones, Billboard notes. The film crew was working on a scene where actor William Hurt, as Allman, was laying on a hospital bed during a dream where he sees deceased brother Duane across the bridge. According to the show, the bed ended up getting in the way when the train came through the scene.
"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," attorney Jeff Harris said on 20/20. Harris is representing Jones' parents in their lawsuit against director Randall Miller and others associated with the film. Allman, executive producer Michael Lehman and distributor Open Road Films were all dropped from the lawsuit recently.
"After reviewing the many thousands of pages of documents, and other information we have obtained through the legal discovery process, it is clear that Mr. Allman and Mr. Lehman had no involvement in any of the decisions that resulted in Sarah's death," Harris said.
Miller and other film officials in charge of scheduling the shoot the day Jones died reportedly knew they didn't have permission to be there, ABC News reports. "The people who made poor choices that day need to be held fully accountable," Richard Jones, Sarah's father, said. "It's clear that certainly the producers and the director, they messed up real bad."
Another unfortunate detail from the program was that Jones took the Midnight Rider job after filming for her previous gig on the seventh Fast & Furious was postponed due to the death of actor Paul Walker.
Clips from the show can be found here.
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