Sacramento, CA : Pair of retired Hollywood stuntmen famed for death-defying vehicular stunts perished in a horrific car crash on Saturday October 11th 2014

A pair of retired Hollywood stuntmen famed for death-defying vehicular stunts perished in a horrific car crash outside Sacramento, Calif. “Speed” and “Dukes of Hazzard” stunt driver Bob Orrison, 86, was behind the wheel of his pickup truck as it was broadsided by a Jeep on Saturday, California’s Merced Sun-Star reported. In the passenger seat at the time was Orrison’s best friend and fellow stunt veteran, 76-year-old Gary McLarty, who also died in the accident. “These are people who spent their adult life doing dangerous things in a calculated way,” McClarty’s wife Hillorie told the Sun-Star. “It defies my imagination.” The late Hollywood stuntmen had decades of movie credits on their resumes. Orrison, a Korean War vet, once doubled for big screen cowboy Audie Murphy, before changing gears and moving to vehicle stunts on films like “Days of Thunder” and "Speed" and the TV series “Dukes of Hazzard.” McLarty was a protege of iconic stuntman Hal Needham, according to the Hollywood Reporter, and was Robert Blake’s stunt double on “Baretta.” Among his more than 150 movies: “The Blues Brothers,” “Beverly Hills Cop,“ “Jurassic Park,” “Gone in Sixty Seconds” and “Lethal Weapon 2.” More recently, he was a stunt driver on Tom Cruise film “Collateral.” Police said the Jeep was traveling at 55 mph at the moment of impact, and that two occupants of that vehicle were hospitalized. The crash is still under investigation. Source : Retired Hollywood stunt drivers Bob Orrison, Gary McLarty die in California car crash