A Savannah judge is weighing whether to issue a gag order and seal public records in wrongful death litigation over the train wreck that killed a worker on the set of a movie about singer Gregg Allman.
The family of Sarah Jones, the camera assistant who died when a train hit the set on a railroad trestle, responded Dec. 1 to the railroad’s request for a gag order. The family called the request from defendant CSX Transportation Inc. “extraordinary and completely unwarranted.” The family said the railroad “falls drastically short of meeting its burden, under Georgia law, to demonstrate the need for sealing the public record and a gag order.”
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