Bond film crew member sues over injury

AN ASSISTANT director on the James Bond films who suffered “careerending” injuries when he was crushed on the set of Spectre is suing for £2.5 million in damages.

Terry Madden was filming in Austria when a camera truck veered off the road and crashed into him on Feb 17 2015. He suffered multiple fractures, tissue damage and nerve damage in the accident and has had a succession of reconstructive operations.

The insurer for Eon Productions, maker of the Bond films, admitted liability. But Mr Madden is yet to receive damages and on Tuesday served proceedings in the High Court.

Mr Madden, 66, had worked on films including the original Star Wars, the Xmen and Jason Bourne franchises, and numerous Bond films. He said: “I felt privileged and proud to work and be part of an active, exciting, but hardworking industry, at times sacrificing family life. Then to have a career – a career you worked hard over many years to build up – taken away within a few seconds in this horrendous accident has been soul-destroying. It has limited my mobility greatly and I am unable to do things I once took for granted.”

His lawyer said that Mr Madden is not critical of the film company.