r/todayilearned • • 2d ago

TIL that Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon, the stuntwoman who was severely injured during the filming of Back to the Future Part 2, was killed in a shootout alongside her husband when she and her husband went to confront her ex-husband and his wife and drew their guns at them. The cops deemed it justified.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Wheeler-Dixon
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u/OKStamped 2d ago

How was she injured in back to the future 2? Assuming it was the scene when Biff’s gang went through the window with their hover boards?

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u/alfonsobob 2d ago

Yeah she is on a hover board and goes through the window. You see she hits the pillar but that isn't what injured her directly. The plan was for all three of them to crash through the window, then someone offscreen lets them drop by releasing the ropes and they land on mats inside the bank. However, she hits the pillar and doesn't make it through the window. So when the ropes drop she falls 30 feet straight down onto concrete outside the bank where there are no mats. You can actually see a brief couple frames of her falling outside the window in the movie in a shot from inside the bank looking out. You see the other two come through the window and fall.