Gregg Allman Biopic Crash Caused By Trespass

Trespass by the crew shooting a film about the rock singer Gregg Allman led to a train crash which killed one person and left six others injured.

The final report into the incident in Georgia in February 2014 has been released by federal safety investigators.

The director of the film, Midnight Rider, pleaded guilty earlier this month to involuntary manslaughter and trespassing charges stemming from the crash in rural Wayne County, about 70 miles (113km) southwest of Savannah.

Randall Miller was sentenced to two years in a county jail and eight years' probation.

Camera assistant Sarah Jones, 27, was killed when an oncoming train tore through the set while she and other crew members installed equipment to film on active train tracks and a trestle bridge.

"Americans have a longstanding affinity with railroads and railroad tracks," said Christopher Hart, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, which issued the report.

"But train tracks are private property and are dangerous places where trains kill and injure hundreds of people every year," he added in a statement.

Allman, who was married to Cher in the 1970s, was not named in the criminal case.

He was dropped from a civil lawsuit in which Ms Jones' family is seeking unspecified financial damages from the people and movie companies involved in the film project.