A New York state court judge has given final approval to the Nassau County government’s $25 million settlement with a woman who was left with a traumatic brain injury in a motor vehicle accident for which a jury found the county was liable because of poor sight distance at the crash site.

A drunken driver smashed into Nicollette Iacone’s vehicle on the night of Sept. 8, 2007, in Oceanside at a T-shaped intersection joining Oceanside Road with Erwin Place. Iacone was 17 years old at the time and, because of her injuries, she is unable to speak and uses a wheelchair, her family’s attorney said.

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