Harrison Ford Could Have Been Killed From His Accident On The Set Of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’

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There was a point last year that a lot of people thought we’d lost Harrison Ford. The actor was involved in a small-aircraft crash on a golf course in California, and naturally some media outlets made it seem a lot worse than it actually was, as the beloved actor was transported to the hospital with some cuts to his face. This came after another scare when it was reported that Ford broke his leg in a pretty serious accident on the set of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Of course, since we’d come to believe that Indiana Jones might have actually sipped from the real Holy Grail and could survive anything, that left many more worried about the film than Ford’s health.

Now, though, thanks to court testimony, we know that Ford’s 2014 on-set accident could have been way more serious and even fatal. Had people not reacted quickly, including J.J. Abrams, Ford could have died when the door of the Millennium Falcon fell on him. This information came out in a Milton Keynes magistrates court, as the Disney-owned Foodles Production company pleaded guilty to two health and safety breaches on the set of The Force Awakens.

Andrew Marshall, prosecuting, said the breaches has caused a “risk of death” and that if the emergency stop had not been pressed in time, it could have been a very different outcome for Ford. “It could have killed somebody. The fact that it didn’t was because an emergency stop was activated,” he Marshall. (Via The Guardian)

The Guardian also recalls Ford’s December interview with Jonathan Ross, during which he described the accident as it happened, blaming the Millennium Falcon’s evolved technologies for the moment that could have killed him.

Ford said: “Now we had lots of money and technology and so they built a f*cking great hydraulic door which closed at light speed and somebody said, ‘Ooh I wonder what this is?’

“And the door came down and hit me on my left hip because I was turned to my right. And then it flung my left leg up and it dislocated my ankle and as it drove me down to the floor, my legs slapped on the ramp up to the Millennium Falcon and broke both bones in my left leg.”

Foodles will be sentenced on August 22, but according to Deadline, the production company’s executives will “contest the level of risk of the accident.” However, they could just take the easy way out and blame Adam Driver.

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