I See A Lawsuit And Possible Criminal Negligence Charges In Michael Bay's Future ...

Michael Bay and the producers of Transformers 3 could be in a world of hurt, though probably not as much as Gabriela Cedillo, a twenty four year old Chicago bank teller hospitalized yesterday after an on set accident left her with serious head injuries.

According to both the LA Times and Deadline, Cedillo was working on set as an extra when a stunt sequence went badly wrong. This would be bad enough but making it even worse are reports that Cedillo - very definitely NOT a trained stunt performer - was involved in a stunt sequence at the time, according to one report having been paid a measly twenty five bucks to allow her car to be hooked up to a cable rig that was towing her car through an elaborate action sequence when the cable snapped and smashed through her windshield while the car smashed into the concrete median barrier wall on the highway where they were shooting. Initial news reports - see the embedded clip below - tell the story of where Cedillo was at the time of the accident slightly differently but given that they'll have gotten their information from a paid publicist attached to the film while the Deadline report came from an anonymous witness on set, I'm a bit more inclined to believe Deadline's account.

Obvious question: Why the hell was a non-professional anywhere close to a major action sequence at all, particularly if Deadline is correct and she was right in the middle of it with no training in her own car? This is bad, bad stuff and our best wishes go to Cedillo for a quick and full recovery.