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SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court on Wednesday let stand a $290 million personal injury jury award levied against the Ford Motor Co. stemming from a Bronco rollover accident in 1993. 

The justices, without publicly commenting, decided at their private weekly conference to uphold what Ford, in court briefs, called the nation’s largest personal injury award ever affirmed by an appellate court. 

The case involved a rollover accident of a 1978 Ford Bronco near Ceres, about 80 miles south of Sacramento, in which three members of the Romo family were killed and two others injured. The Romos sued the Dearborn, Mich., automaker and a Stanislaus County civil jury awarded $290 million.