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Guess they weren't pedestrians...
Broderick met actress
Jennifer Grey on the set of
Ferris Bueller's Day Off. On
August 5,
1987, she was with him as he drove on a rain-slicked road on the outskirts of
Enniskillen in
Northern Ireland. Broderick drove his rented
BMW 316 head-on into another car (he apparently was not experienced with the fact that
in the United Kingdom, traffic flows on the left) carrying 63-year-old Margaret Doherty and her 30-year-old daughter Anna Gallagher; both women were killed. Broderick had to be cut out of the car; he suffered facial
lacerations and a broken thigh. Grey escaped with minor injuries. Broderick had no memory of the event and Grey was distracted at the moment of the
accident, changing audio tapes and seeing nothing. The lack of witnesses, skid marks, or other evidence led Broderick to plead guilty
in absentia on
February 15,
1988 to the lesser charge of
careless driving. He was fined £100.
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Back in the United States, when asked about his trip to Northern Ireland, Broderick noted that he wanted to put the experience behind him. "My leg was broken", he says, "I was badly messed up. I have no desire to be more badly hurt. I don't feel that I need to have more misfortune or that anything bad has to happen to me to pay for this. I can say it's over, and I'm really glad it's over. I want to go on."