A woman stunt driver has died on the set of Deadpool 2 in downtown Vancouver during the filming of a stunt on a motorcycle, Vancouver police said on Monday.
WorkSafeBC was on the scene along with law enforcement, the Vancouver Police Department promised further information as it becomes available.
The woman, whose name has not been released, was treated by an ambulance crew after the crash but was pronounced dead on the scene, The Vancouver Sun reported. Witnesses told the newspaper she lost control, jumped a curb and slammed through the glass windows of an office building.
The woman successfully performed the stunt four times, but had a problem with the throttle on her fifth practise run and lost control when the engine engaged, according to Canada’s Global News, which had a crew on the scene gathering information about a separate fatal bus crash.
A representative for movie studio 20th Century Fox, a unit of Twenty-First Century Fox, did not immediately respond to Reuters for comment.
The sequel to the 2016 superhero movie Deadpool starring Ryan Reynolds is being filmed in Vancouver.
