A 19-Year-Old Black Woman Died After An Elederly Driver Crashed Into Her Job — So When Does ‘My Foot Slipped’ Stop Being An Excuse?
Zion Branch died on the scene at her bakery job after a man in his 70s said he was trying to park, but his foot slipped off the brake. The post A 19-Year-Old Black Woman Died After An Elederly Driver Crashed Into Her Job — So When Does ‘My Foot Slipped’ Stop Being An Excuse? appeared first on MadameNoire.
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Zion Branch was tragically killed while at work, a job the 19-year-old hoped would ultimately lead to her lifelong dream of owning her own bakery. But unfortunately, the 2025 high school graduate whose family is remembering her as a driven and witty young woman will never realize that aspiration after a pickup truck crashed into a Nothing Bundt Cakes bakery in Atascocita, Texas, on Tuesday afternoon.
Investigators said a pickup truck crashed into the bakery on West Lake Houston Parkway near FM 1960, where flowers, balloons, and handwritten messages are being left amid a growing memorial.
“When your babies are gone, you will feel it in your soul, and it hurts,” her mother, Karamell Brown, said, per KHOU 11. “Oh, it hurts so bad.”
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