SAVANNAH—The civil trial of a railroad company accused of negligence in the 2014 death of a movie worker opened Tuesday with jurors watching video of the film crew fleeing a freight train moments before the fatal crash on a Georgia railroad bridge.
Sarah Jones, a 27-year-old camera assistant, was killed on the first day of shooting “Midnight Rider,” a movie based on the life of Allman Brothers Band singer Gregg Allman. Jones’ parents are suing CSX Transportation, saying the train’s engineer should have braked and two other trains that passed the film crew alongside the tracks in the hour before the crash should have called in a warning.
