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Horror as extra's skull 'sliced open' on Michael Bay's Transformers 3 set

By April MacIntyre Sep 4, 2010, 17:33 GMT

US director Michael Bay - 25 bucks a day to use your car? EPA/ANDREW GOMBERT

Actress Garbiela Cedillo woked as a bank teller by day and as an extra on a film set after work. 

The woman was horrifically injured on the set of Michael Bay's Transformers 3, and is now reported to be in stable condition following brain surgery.

Jalopnik.com reported that the 24-year-old woman was sitting in her car during a night scene in Hammond, Indiana when a car stunt went terribly wrong.

From Jalopnik:

"Witnesses say Cedillo was sitting in her car as a truck towed another vehicle at high speed in the other direction for filming. The cable on the truck snapped and hit the windshield of the woman's Scion and then 'sliced through her skull.' She was helicoptered to Loyola hospital where she underwent brain surgery."

Local news affiliate WLS-TV, the Bay film extras were paid minimum wage plus $25 to use their own cars, which they drove during a scene involving a high-speed stunt.

According to Jalopnik.com, the production (Chicago area) was canceled yesterday and the studio has had nothing to say so far.

Extras from the film tell their sources that they "only signed a non-disclosure form but nothing related to protecting the studio's liability in the event of an accident."

Concerned friends have set up a Facebook page for Ms. Cedillo HERE