Dangerous driving

As ‘Mad Max’ is very action-centric, it’s not surprising that there were several major near-misses that could have ended in disaster.

Dale Bensch, a member of The Vigilanties, was rumoured to have died on set shooting the sequence were Max is chasing the bikers across a bridge, though he has since clarified that he only came close to being critically-injured instead.

He said: “There’s an urban myth that a stuntman was killed, and that was me.

“The scariest thing was dropping the bike on that bridge. They took the speedo and tach off because they didn’t want to damage more than they had to. They wet the surface to make it easier, but I hung onto the bike too long and it flipped me over with it; that’s why it looked bad. But it’s a famous scene, so it worked out all right!”