A heroic grandmother wraps her body around her grandson to save his life, while the taxi they were in crashed.  A New York City taxi crashed on a highway while the two were inside, Suzanna Nicholson, thought very quickly as the vehicle collided and used her body as a shield.  Hit the jump to see the car carnage and read the details of the story.

Steph Bassanini


A Utah woman who was taking her grandson on vacation died in a taxi crash after wrapping her body around the 11-year-old to protect him during the fatal collision on a rain-drenched New York City highway.
The impact killed Suzanne Nicholson of Ogden, Utah, and her 46-year-old cab driver Mohamed Hussain in the early hours of Saturday morning on the Long Island Expressway.
After rescue workers cut their way through the mangled wreck, they found the 60-year-old using her body to shield her grandson, Gabriel Larsen, who remains in hospital with broken ribs, a fractured collarbone, a punctured lung and a concussion, according to the New York Daily News.
‘I’m still stunned,’ Suzanne Nicholson’s husband, Dewayne Nicholson, told the newspaper from Utah. ‘I’m waiting for someone to wake me up from this bad dream.’
The taxi was taking the tourists from Kennedy Airport to Manhattan around 12.30am. Police said the cab was near 66th Street in Queens when it hit the back of a 1995 Porsche.
The cab fell onto its side and swerved from the left lane into the right lane, according to authorities, and came to a halt as a privately-owned garbage truck came along.
The truck could not stop in time and slammed into the cab. The driver was witnessed crying and shaking after the collision. No charges have been pressed against him.
The accident occurred on the rain-slicked roadways during torrential downpours.
No one in the sports car or truck was hurt. Nicholson and her grandson were rushed to nearby Elmhurst Hospital, where she was declared dead after her efforts to save Gabriel.
He remains in a stable condition despite his injuries. His prognosis ‘was sounding pretty positive,’ according to grandfather Dewayne Nicholson.
‘The last I heard he was stable, and my daughter’s on her way there now.’
He told the New York Daily News he was awake waiting to hear from his wife upon her arrival to the Big Apple.
Instead, the man married to Nicholson of 37 years got word of the devastating news.
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