Original sentence: Brockovich  also involved in a car accident in Reno and was seriously injured
Edited sentence: At the center of the case was a facility called the Hinkley Compressor Station, part of a natural gas pipeline connecting to the San Francisco Bay Area constructed in 1952.Between 1952 and 1966, PG&E used hexavalent chromium to fight corrosion in the cooling tower.Brockovich was involved in a car accident in Reno and was seriously injured.Some of the wastewater percolated into the groundwater, affecting an area near the plant approximately two miles long and nearly a mile wide.The case alleged contamination of drinking water with hexavalent chromium, also known as chromium(VI), in the southern California town of Hinkley.The case was settled in 1996 for $333 million, the largest settlement ever paid in a direct action lawsuit in U.The wastewater dissolved the hexavalent chromium from the cooling towers and was discharged to unlined ponds at the site