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Victim of deadly SUV crash re-injured when SUV plows through wall of her bedroom

Written by Jason Zasky as part of Failure Analysis

December 2, 2009—Shannon Broome, 15, of Jacksonville, Florida, was home in bed recovering from a deadly SUV accident when an SUV plowed through the wall of her bedroom just after midnight Tuesday morning and pinned her against a wall, re-breaking the same leg that was shattered in a June accident that killed four of her friends. Broome also suffered a broken pelvis, broken wrist and multiple broken ribs in Tuesday’s accident, according to her family’s attorney, Eric Block.

The driver of the SUV, 19-year-old Jacksonville resident Steven Nicholas Bryant, was allegedly looking at his cell phone when he veered off the road and plowed through a chain-link fence before hitting the house, according to the Jacksonville Sherriff’s Office report. Bryant has been cited for careless driving.

Broome was previously injured in a June wreck in which the SUV in which she was riding blew a tire and rolled over on Interstate 295, killing four teenagers and injuring four others, including Broome, who was ejected from the vehicle. A 15-year-old was at the wheel—illegally—in the June accident.