A jury awarded $1,133 to a woman who claimed she suffered permanent neck and lower back injuries after a Palm Beach County sheriff’s vehicle rear-ended her.

Melanie O’Neal, then 38, was a passenger in a sedan leaving a shopping plaza on Okeechobee Boulevard when a sheriff’s employee driving a department pickup rolled into the rear of her car. O’Neal was diagnosed with herniated discs at C2-3 and L5-S1.