I’ve thought about Jerome a lot since his passing and would love to give Jerome the benefit of the doubt, but an Inquirer official report (which, admittedly, was challenged in court) said:

The investigation of the crash, which happened on the afternoon of June 25, 1992, concluded that “careless” driving by Brown was the cause.
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Brown drove out of the body shop’s parking lot that afternoon and onto Hale Avenue, a picturesque back lane shaded by giant oak trees draped with silver strands of Spanish moss. Two employees – Brown’s friends John Davis and Walter Griffin – told police that they heard the Corvette “quickly accelerate” and then heard the car’s power booster surge on as the car reached second gear.

Tread marks on the road show that the car crossed the northbound lane on Hale and went into the southbound lane, then abruptly veered back across the northbound lane and onto the grass shoulder. According to the police report, the car hit a small, grassy rise and was catapulted, traveling 22 feet in the air, listing toward the driver’s side, before the left front slammed into a palmetto tree.

The impact swung the back end of the car counterclockwise until it collided with a telephone pole hard enough to move the pole 15 inches. The car, which had by then flipped upside down, fell to the ground.

Brown was killed instantly. The autopsy report showed that he died of massive head injuries and also suffered severe internal injuries. His nephew died minutes after the crash, when the pressure of the car pressing his head into his chest suffocated him.
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Brown was a notoriously carefree driver who sometimes gathered employees of Register Chevrolet – the body shop he pulled away from moments before crashing – to watch him spin the fat wheels of his Corvette, dump the clutch and dramatically accelerate out of their back parking lot.

State investigators appended to their report a computer printout showing 12 separate citations Brown had received for speeding or reckless driving in Florida alone from 1986 until his death.

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Doesn’t sound fair to just say the accident happen because of a rainstorm.

What in the world are you talking about, dummy? He was in a car wreck in the middle of the day with his 12 year old nephew in the car with him.

So unless you’re condemning people who drive in rain storms, which btw happen a lot in Florida especially during the summer time, shut up.

That Eagle defense with him and Reggie White (RIP) leading the charge up front was a joy to watch.

The two had become really close and Brown had begun to turn his life around. It was a sad and tragic story.

Living life on the edge, like Jerome liked to do, can have an enormous cost to yourself and your loved ones.

I used to love watching that defense operate.

Wow, 20 years.

RIP Big Jerome