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🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | Alright, so some of you may have seen the early 90s classic, The Fugitive, it's a movie |
0:05.4 | starring Harrison Ford. |
0:07.0 | And the fugitive, of course, Harrison Ford's character is chasing the one-art man and |
0:13.1 | killed his wife. |
0:14.8 | That's Jim Buchanan, a writer for the Silva Herald and Western North Carolina, where a lot |
0:19.3 | of the fugitive was filmed. |
0:21.3 | Harrison Ford's character, Richard Kimble, was wrongly convicted for the murder, so he's |
0:25.2 | on a bus on the way to prison. |
0:27.7 | Suddenly, the other prisoners on the bus try to escape, and in all the commotion, the |
0:32.0 | bus goes off the road and crashes and slides down a hill until it ends up right on a train |
0:37.1 | track. |
0:41.5 | While trying to get a hold of himself after the accident, Richard Kimble realizes there's |
0:45.0 | a train coming towards the bus, and in a risky move decides to save one of the guards instead |
0:49.6 | of just getting out of there as fast as he could. |
0:52.7 | It's one of those really tense moments where you're not sure if the main guy is going |
0:55.8 | to make it out in time or not, but as you probably have guessed, he does. |
1:00.2 | Richard Kimble gets the guard to safety and then jumps off the bus at the last second as |
1:04.4 | the train slams into the center of the bus. |
1:11.2 | Immediately, fire started along the tracks as the train derails and falls on its side. |
1:15.6 | The bus, or at least what's left of it, is also on fire. |
1:19.7 | But what a lot of people who have watched that movie probably don't know is that that |
1:23.8 | train and bus collision was real. |
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