{"id":78816,"date":"2017-07-25T19:50:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T23:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=78816"},"modified":"2017-07-25T19:50:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T23:50:25","slug":"parents-of-27-year-old-woman-killed-while-filming-movie-win-11-2-million-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=78816","title":{"rendered":"Parents of 27-year-old woman killed while filming movie win $11.2-million judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The site of the February 2014 train accident in Wayne County, Ga., that killed camera assistant Sarah Jones on the set of “Midnight Rider.” (Wayne County Sheriff’s Office)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

By Ethan Varian<\/p>\n

The parents of Sarah Jones, the camera assistant who was killed during filming of a movie in Georgia in 2014, won a significant legal victory Monday when a court awarded the family $11.2 million in damages.<\/p>\n

Jones, 27, was fatally struck by a train that crashed into a crew filming a scene on a railway for the\u00a0Gregg Allman<\/a>\u00a0biopic \u201cMidnight Rider.\u201d Several other crew members also were injured during filming of the scene on a historic trestle outside of Savannah. Authorities said producers did not have permission to film on the railway.<\/p>\n

The accident prompted multiple state and federal investigations and galvanized the film industry, prompting calls for greater attention to safety on sets worldwide. The judgment comes at a time when set safety issues are again rattling the industry after a\u00a0stuntman died<\/a>during filming of the AMC television series \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d last week. That accident also occurred in Georgia.<\/p>\n