Kisaan Howard (age 15)Renee Howard (Mother)Wildwood, NJAs a 2-year-old, Kisaan Howard’s neck was broken during an accident when sheslipped out of her seatbelt; she needs round the clock care.In 1996, Renee, her husband and then two year-old Kisaan, riding in their Jeep Grand Cherokee, were hit head on.

 

Kimberly Young Dionne Sales (niece and attorney)Rose Young (mother and caretaker)Oakland, CA Kimberly Young’s neck was broken, rendering her quadriplegic, when the roof ofher Jeep Grand Cherokee caved in during an accident.On August 29, 2008, 44-year-old Kimberly Young was driving her mother’s 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee with her daughter, Keyona Chester, when the vehicle was involved in an accident and rolled over.

In the fall of 2007, Farbod Nourian was in his senior year at UCLA, studying history, and planning to apply to law school. But that November he was seriously injured, when the 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee he had just exited slipped, without warning from park to reverse. Nourian was walking behind the vehicle to get into the passenger’s seat, when he noticed the Jeep start to move backwards, he turned and was caught by the door. He grabbed onto the door, but when the vehicle hit a wall, it knocked him to the concrete, rupturing three disks and crushing his vertebrae. He now suffers from chronic pain and gastrointestinal distress. According to his doctors, he faces a lifetime of pain that will only get worse as he ages.