Production on Quantum of Solace halted after second prang

Filming on the new Bond movie has been suspended after three accidents in five days, prompting claims that the film is “jinxed”, “cursed by gypsies”, and “burdened with a shit title”. The latest unhappy accident saw an Alfa Romeo 159 collide with a lorry, then a wall, during the shooting of a de rigeur chase scene. The crash left stunt driver Aris Comninos in a coma. He is currently in intensive care in a hospital in Verona.

The first auto mishap occurred on Saturday when Jonathan Dunn Fraser, an Aston Martin worker, was delivering a one-off DBS sports car to the set. He lost control of the car on a wet,winding road, and plunged into Lake Garda. In a second accident, on Monday, during shooting of yet another car chase, a stuntman was injured, albeit not seriously. Watch a report on the film’s troubled shoot: