LATEST: HELENA BONHAM CARTER has halted filming on the new TERMINATOR motion picture to fly back to Britain later on four members of her family were killed in a horrific car crash in South Africa.
Bonham Carter's relatives were on a hunting expedition holiday in the area when a minibus they were travelling in on Wednesday (20Aug08) spun out of control and flipped over later a tyre burst.
The actress' cousin Fiona Bonham Carter, 51, at large with a broken shoulder. But Fiona's son Marcus Egerton-Warburton, 14, her mother Brenda, 74, and stepfather Francis Kirkwood, 75, all died.
Fiona's sister-in-law Kay Boardman, 54, also perished in the crash, in a remote area six hours' drive from Johannesburg.
Bonham Carter has now been granted indefinite leave from the define of Terminator Salvation in Albuquerque, New Mexico to fly back to the U.K. to comfort her distraught home.
A source tells British newspaper the Sunday Express, "Everyone here was in a state of shock when the news came through. I byword an supporter of Helena's who told me she is dead stricken with grief. She can't trust what happened."
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