Footage From 'Midnight Rider' Set Minutes Before Sarah Jones' Death Aired
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In a chilling video taken from inside a CSX locomotive, the cast and crew are seen running away from the train tracks to save their lives.

AceShowbiz - In a special report, ABC's "20/20" aired some "Midnight Rider" set pictures that chronicled the last minutes of camera assistant Sarah Jones' life. It also included the chilling footage of the camera cast and crew running off the live train tracks to save their lives.

Jones was struck and killed by a train in Doctortown train trestle in rural Georgia on February 20 this year. Director Randall Miller wanted to shoot a dream sequence on the train tracks but did not have the permission to film there. The cast and crew set up a hospital bed and other equipments on the train tracks just minutes before a CSX locomotive came speeding down their way and left them only seconds to escape.

"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," said Jeff Harris, the attorney representing Jones' parents Richard and Elizabeth. Richard added, "The shrapnel, it apparently hit her and caused her to knock her into the train."

Hairstylist Joyce Gilliard recalled, "At first it was like a quiet, like people were in shock at what happened. I remember hearing somebody say 'Oh my gosh, she's dead.' " And then she said she saw Jones beside the tracks and "didn't know it was her." Miller was shown repeatedly saying "that's not my job" when asked why he didn't know there could be a train heading their way.

A camera mounted inside the locomotive showed the cast and crew scrambling away from the tracks. The bed and some of the crew, including stars William Hurt and Wyatt Russell, were only inches away from the tracks a minute before impact. Jones was reportedly trying to save the expensive camera equipments.

Richard said Miller called him hours after the accident sounding very "upset." Jones' parents have filed a civil lawsuit against all those held responsible. "The people who made poor choices that day need to be held fully accountable," Richard said. "It's clear that certainly the producers and the director, they messed up real bad."

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