A YOUNG basketball star killed in a car crash in Somerset has been honoured by his former team mates.
Matthew Bromley, 23, died in May after his car and a lorry collided at the crossroads of the B3139 and the B3355, near Chilcompton. Now his friends on the Trowbridge Hawks basketball team have retired the number 21 shirt in his memory.
The club have also put together a book of remembrance, which they handed over to his family at a memorial event held at St Augustine's Catholic College in Trowbridge last Wednesday.
Mr Bromley, a former pupil at Clarendon College, Trowbridge, was a rising star in the basketball world, playing for Bristol's national league team the Filton Flyers as well as the Trowbridge Hawks.
The Hawks also held a memorial game for him in August, raising £464 for the British Heart Foundation. The number on the team vest he wore will now not be used again.
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