How 'Midnight Rider' Victim Sarah Jones Lost Her Life: A Train, a Narrow Trestle and 6. Seconds to Escape.

The Feb. 2. 0 death of 2. Sarah. Jones on the set of Midnight Rider outside Doctortown, Ga., spread grief and anger through Hollywood. It has led to an industrywide reckoning on safety standards and inspired some Oscars attendees to wear black ribbons on their lapels in her memory. Many of the details of the accident remain murky and unknown. But now a THR reconstruction, based on an exclusive eyewitness account and interviews with Jones’ parents and others, reveals harrowing new details of what happened when a 2.

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Hurt as the 1. 97. Altamaha River in Wayne County, a wild, untamed land full of rivers, Spanish moss and gnats. As soon as I got to the location, I started to feel funny,” she said during a series of interviews.

It didn’t feel right. I didn’t feel safe there.”The 1. Altamaha River, Wayne County, Ga. Jones, already known in the local production community as an indefatigable worker with a cheery disposition, apparently didn’t reveal any concerns to co- workers. But her father, Richard. Jones, says that in a phone conversation the night before she died, his daughter told him she was “nervous about a few things.” He says, “She was a little bit surprised about it being low- budget. She made a comment that some of the people asking her questions should have known more than her, and she thought that was odd.” The day she died, says her father, was her first on the set.

For the full, exclusive interview with Jones' parents, click here.)EARLIER: Hundreds Mourn Sarah Jones at Emotional Memorial. As a barefoot Hurt paced, rehearsing his lines, Gilliard watched nervously. She was responsible for the actor’s hair, and as the wind picked up, she darted in and out of shots before retreating behind the cameras, where she traded small talk with Jones. As the day wore on, director Randall. Miller moved the shoot from the land beside the river onto the narrow gridwork of the trestle itself, which extends over the edge of the Altamaha.

The trestle’s wood and metal bottom was covered with pebbles and had gaping holes in some places. The blustery wind rang through the girders, making it hard to stay steady, says Gilliard. From shore, several dozen yards away, a voice shouted to the crew that in the event a train appeared, everyone would have 6.

Everybody on the crew was tripping over that,” says Gilliard. A minute? Are you serious?” By now, she and two other crewmembers were nervous enough that before shooting, they gathered in an informal prayer circle. Lord, please protect us on these tracks,” murmured Gilliard. Surround us with your angels and help us, Lord.”While Gilliard prayed, Jones helped load film, monitor the cameras and transport gear. A fresh- faced South Carolinian with a passion for travel and books, Jones wasn’t really the type to fret much. The crew was filming a dream sequence, and they had placed a twin- size metal- framed bed and mattress in the middle of the tracks.

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Then, Gilliard looked up and saw a light in the distance, followed by the immense howl of a locomotive. It was a train — and it was hurtling toward them. VIDEO: ‘Midnight Rider’ Victim Sarah Jones Remembered on Oscars Broadcast. Two stories high, screaming with the sound of a blast horn and possibly brakes, the train was nearly as wide as the trestle. Gilliard says Miller yelled at everyone to run. Jones, several bags slung over each shoulder, shouted something about what to do with the expensive camera equipment.

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Drop it!” Gilliard and others yelled. Just drop it!”The only viable escape route to the closest shore lay in running toward the approaching train, now traveling, by one estimate, at almost 6. Gilliard tried to make her way onto the metal gangplank parallel to the tracks. Miller and another crewmember began tugging at the bed, trying to remove it from the train’s path, fearing it might cause a derailment.

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But as the train approached, Gilliard says, they abandoned their efforts. Hairstylist Joyce Gilliard, injured on the set of "Midnight Rider," at her home. Photo credit: Terry Manier)Before Gilliard knew it, the train was upon her. She found herself clinging to one of the girders. But the blast of pressure and wind from the train’s passing ripped Gilliard’s left arm away from her body and straight into the train. It snapped like a stick.

With one hand still on the girder, Gilliard looked down and saw bone sticking out of her sweater. And then she saw blood.

She grabbed a sheet that had come loose from the mattress and wrapped her bleeding arm inside it. With the train howling past just inches behind her, Gilliard threw herself onto two metal wires that stretched between the girders and along the gangplank, thrust her head out over the river below and shut her eyes. I saw my life, my kids, my family, all of it before me,” she says. I was sure I was going to die.”PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2. One of the first things she saw when she opened her eyes again was a lifeless Jones, her body and face mangled. Like Gilliard, Jones had tried to find shelter on the gangplank.

But when the train hit the bed and mattress, it sent debris flying. Something may have hit Jones, possibly propelling her into the train’s path. In the melee, Miller also fell on the tracks. A still photographer nearby managed to pull him away just in time. He was sobbing, Gilliard says, trying to cope with the disaster.

Hurt also survived unscathed. The traumatized crew helped collect Jones’ body. A team of paramedics arrived within 2. Within an hour after the incident, Gilliard was airlifted to a Savannah hospital to be treated for a compound fracture in her arm and other injuries. Five other crewmembers also required medical care. A police investigation was opened, and federal officials soon were swarming the marshy countryside asking about permissions, permits, easements and the complex language of film contracts. Click above to enlarge image. The multiple investigations since have widened to include the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Georgia law enforcement authorities are treating the investigation into Jones’ death as a negligent homicide, setting the stage for the biggest safety- related scandal to rock Hollywood in at least a decade. The exact details of what precautions were — or were not — taken on the set that day and whether the production even had permission to film on the tracks are being sorted out. But in the days following the disaster, recriminations of shockingly lax safety protocols began to emerge.“This was no accident,” says Ray.

Brown, president of the Motion Picture Studio Mechanics union local 4. Atlanta and a Jones colleague, suggesting the incident was avoidable. When I have done train work or around trains for smaller productions up to major blockbusters, there are always several railroad personnel there with their hard hats, glasses and radios, and I can’t imagine a more structured safety protocol even beyond airlines than the rail system.”STORY: 'Vampire Diaries' Pays Tribute to 'Midnight Rider' Camera Assistant Sarah Jones Jones’ parents are reluctant to cast blame until investigations are complete. A shaken Miller called them after the incident to express his condolences. I don’t know myself really what part Randy Miller played in all of this, but he was very upset that day,” says Richard Jones. He was saying he was so sorry.” Since then, the Joneses have heard nothing from top execs associated with the film. Their daughter’s death prompted a tidal outpouring of grief and anger from around the world.