Eight crew members, including two who were ejected from a vehicle, were taken to hospitals after a crash on the set of the movie “The Pickup,” the authorities said on Thursday.
The Georgia State Police said that the two people who were ejected sustained life-threatening injuries and that a third person had serious injuries. The crash occurred at a small airport outside Atlanta on Saturday.
According to two people with direct knowledge of the situation who were not authorized to speak publicly about it, one person remained hospitalized with a back injury on Wednesday. They said that none of the actors in the film, which features Eddie Murphy, Keke Palmer and Pete Davidson, were involved in the crash.
Video of the crash that was obtained by The New York Times shows an armored truck pulling up alongside an S.U.V. before swerving into it. After the collision, both vehicles veer off the road in tandem and drive onto grass, where the armored truck flips on top of the S.U.V. Both vehicles completely roll over and end up upright but mangled.
The video — a cellphone recording of a monitor playing back the footage of the crash — shows one person tumbling out of the armored truck as its back door swings open and another person lying limp inside the truck.
The police said that the S.U.V. — a BMW X5 — had one occupant, the driver, and that the truck was carrying seven people: a driver, a front-seat passenger and five crew members who were secured in the back with belt restraints attached to the walls.
Amazon MGM Studios said in a statement that all safety precautions were reviewed before the action sequence and monitored during its filming.
“Unfortunately, the sequence did not go as planned and several members of the crew were injured as a result,” the studio said. “We are still in the process of gathering facts on what happened and why, but first and foremost our thoughts are with those who are recovering.”
The police said in a statement that the armored truck, a GMC C6, had been attempting to execute a tactical maneuver on the S.U.V. But when the two vehicles collided as planned, the truck’s brush guard became entangled in the smaller vehicle’s wheel well, the police said.
The two people with knowledge of the episode said there was no ambulance on site to immediately tend to the victims. A separate person with knowledge of the production, who was granted anonymity to discuss details about the crash, said emergency workers and police officers were on the scene.
Experts said it was fairly standard practice to have an ambulance on standby for potentially dangerous stunts. An ambulance was called after the crash, but there were differing accounts of how long it took to arrive.
Sean Miller, a spokesman for the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which represents the crew members involved, said it was aware of the crash and had started an inquiry. Eric Lucero, a spokesman for the Labor Department, said the Occupational Safety and Health Administration had “initiated an investigation” but declined to provide additional information.
Dutch Merrick, a longtime prop master who lives in California, said that the movie industry generally took “very careful precautions for these kinds of rigs and stunts.”
“That’s what makes this an anomaly,” he said. “We do this literally every day in Hollywood.”
