Death leap film for study
PA Invercargill A movie film may reveal why a stuntman, Mr Lyndon Wilson, died while attempting to leap 14 cars on a motor-cycle at Te Anau on Sunday. Mr Wilson, aged 19, of Te Anau, was making his first jump of that number of cars when he died, said* Mr Neil Boniface, Mr Wilson’s partner in the Southern Stunt Riders team, yesterday.
The cause of the accident is not known, but Mr Boniface said the police had discovered that one of the five boards on the lead-up ramp was broken. The police had arranged for a film of the death leap to be developed and studied in Wellington, he said. Mr Wilson practised all week jumping the equivalent distance of up to 15 cars and had previously
cleared six Landrovers at Gore in November, Mr Boniface said.
Describing the dead stuntman as his best friend, Mr Boniface said the jumps were “completely predictable unless something goes wrong with equipment or machinery. Mistimed jumps are very rare.”
The Lumsden Coroner will hold an inquest into the death.
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