In the long, sad, completely avoidable continuum of on-set accidents, which includes but is not limited to the death of
#VicMorrow and two small children during the filming of “Twilight Zone: The Movie;” the lethal shooting of
#BrandonLee on “The Crow;” and cinematographer
#HalynaHutchins’ death on the set of independent western “
#Rust,” what happened during the filming of “Midnight Rider,” a biographical feature about Gregg Allman remains unique.
After second assistant camerawoman Sarah Jones was struck by a train on the set in 2014, the movie’s director,
#RandallMiller, pled guilty to felony involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespassing and received a 10-year probationary sentence, with a year to be served in custody. He wound up serving 382 days, entering a plea on March 9, 2015 and leaving prison on March 23, 2016. But his case remains historic. Miller, 62, is the first – and so far only – director to go to jail following a fatal on-set accident.
Now after being exonerated on...