A Sumner woman has entered a guilty plea in a case involving a collision that left a man paralyzed, according to KIMT. 32 year old Melissa Nickerson entered the plea in Bremer County District Court on Wednesday to a charge of serious injury by vehicle. According to law enforcement, Nickerson was traveling along 140th Street in September of 2019 when she rear ended a vehicle driven by Jeffery Bloom. Investigators found that Nickerson was having a Facebook Messenger conversation on her phone at the time. Bloom was left paralyzed from the chest down. Nickerson faces up to five years in prison when she is sentenced on June 15th.
