A settlement has been reached in the wrongful death case involving camera assistant Sarah Jones, who was killed in 2014 while filming the movie “Midnight Rider” in Georgia, the law firm representing Jones’ family announced on Wednesday.
CSX Transportation, the defendants in the case, agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to Jones’ family. Jones was struck by a train while filming “Midnight Rider” five years ago atop a live railroad trestle, prompting extra scrutiny on the safety standards enforced on movie and TV sets. During the trial, attorneys for Jones’ family argued that CSX, which owned the train which struck Jones, did not alert their trains to the crew’s presence after two trains passed the crew before the collision.
