From Yahoo Entertainment News:

Actress Roberta Taylor, who plays Gina Gold in ITV1 crime drama The Bill, broke her little finger three times while filming an episode to be shown on Thursday April 28.

Co-star Cyril Nri, who plays Superintendent Adam Okaro, has revealed he accidentally caused the injuries, saying: "All of a sudden we heard a scream and we stopped filming. All I could think was, 'Oh my God, I've broken my colleague's fingers'. Not good."

The scene in question comes shortly after what must be the worst day in Adam Okaro's life, when his entire family - his wife and their son and daughter - are killed in a car crash.

Nri says the storyline is the saddest he's had to deal with in 25 years in showbiz.

"I don't think there's much more that can beat it - your whole family being wiped out in one fell swoop," says the 43-year-old, who's a father of two himself.

The Superintendent actually passes the crash scene unaware that his entire family is involved, before being given the terrible news on his return to Sun Hill.

"They die one after the other," says Cyril, with a grimace. "All they need to do now is kill Adam's cat. It's the saddest thing ever.

"Before I'd got the scripts I'd been warned that people had been in tears reading them. I thought they were exaggerating. But it's true - this is the most demanding, emotional stuff that I've ever had to do," says the actor, who starred in EastEnders, Family Affairs and cult drama This Life, before joining the police drama more than two years ago.

For Adam Okaro, this is the start of a descent into grief-stricken madness. He doesn't believe the reports that the crash was caused by his late wife taking a call on her mobile phone.

"He knows his wife wouldn't have done that, especially with the kids in the car," explains Cyril. "He invites himself into the home of the other lady who was involved in the accident, despite much protest. He wants to know the truth. And he gets it."

It's at this point that Gina Gold and Tony Stamp burst in to find Adam going wild - which is where Roberta's broken fingers come in.

Cyril says that the scenes bought home to him how a moment of lost concentration at the wheel can have devastating consequences. A real-life car accident a year ago persuaded him to trade his Mini in for a more substantial Audi. Cyril recalls: "I thought I'd get something that wouldn't fold when it was crashed into. I was on the way out to a nightclub with a friend when this silly race started with a taxi driver. Me and another driver were trying to stop the cab cutting in. The lights went red and I stopped, but the other driver had his eyes on the cab and went straight into the back of me. All of a sudden, the boot was where the back seat used to be."

Fortunately, the accident wasn't serious and Cyril continued not only with his evening, but drove the crumpled car around for a week or so till it fell apart outside his south London home. Back in Sun Hill, viewers will get to see a new serious Adam, who, according to Cyril's young sons, is nothing like him. "My boys think Adam's too serious. They see me and then they see Adam, who's always angry and shouting. I'm not sure they like him," he chuckles.

"But I'm a bit too much of a child to be like that in real life."