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Among the most grizzly of the injuries on his job sheet is what's known as a "face pull-off", in which the actor's face appears to be ripped away from their head.

Maryland transportation officials and Franchot’s office later said the comptroller had no influence on the Maryland State Highway Administration’s decision to reject the pull-off area, known as a layby, for safety reasons.

State highway officials would later consider the developer’s application for a delivery truck pull-off area on a state road, which is critical to the project advancing.

“There was certainly a pull-off of the kinds of the missions we were trying to do to accommodate that visit.”

As the paved highway winds through the Wood River Valley, there are multiple pull-off points to allow drivers to view the stars.