Poor Bumblebee
 

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/entertainment/d...ng-in-dc-101110

Bumblebee car totaled in car crash during TF3 filming... sad.gif


Totaled by police officer driving through the closed road, that was closed for filming... he was on a call, but was driving through the filming area while they were filming...

His excuse was that he was on a different channel...

Video of the crash in the link....

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>WASHINGTON - A D.C. Police SUV was involved in a wreck at the filming of "Transformers 3" in Washington D.C.

While the movie was filming a car chase scene on 3rd Street and Maryland Ave in southwest D.C., the police SUV collides with a yellow Chevy Camaro, which in the movie series is known as the character Bumblebee.

The police SUV was not supposed to be there and the wreck itself was not scripted.

The police officer driving the SUV is a 25-year veteran senior explosive ordinance technician. He was taken to a local hospital and sustained minor injuries.

Law enforcement sources tell FOX 5 that he was driving to a call for a suspicious package incident nearby and was using a different radio channel than the police officers who were securing the perimeter for the movie.

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Statement from the Metropolitan Police Department:

"Earlier today, a MPD marked cruiser responding to an emergency assignment, collided with a vehicle involved in the filming of a movie at Third Street and Maryland Avenue, SW. The officer sustained minor injuries and was transported to a local hospital. No civilian injuries have been reported.

The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the facts of the crash and filming of this movie on closed DC city streets has been suspended until safety procedures can be reviewed."</div>

Saw this earlier. The camaro get messed up big time. The SUV looked like it didnt even really have much damage done to it.

That is one stupid cop. EVERYTHING let him know exactly what he was doing wrong.

Stupid cop to think he should not be responding to emergencies. F the people of the city if a bomb goes off there's a film to make? People who get sideways over this need to get over themselves. At worst, there was a failure on somebody's part to get a memo about a filming location. Big whoop.

The truck suffered extensive damage to the right front corner, from the hood to the bumper. None of it was likely to disable the car, as it should be with a) a police car and cool.gif a truck with a grille guard. The camaro took damage because that's what crumple zones do.

I thought it was stupid that they immediately covered the car with tarps.

dunno.gif Oh well. Good thing the money from the first 2 can replace the car a million times or so over.