Renowned Princeton mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate, John Forbes Nash Jr., whose life story was described in the Oscar-winning movie ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ was killed in a taxi crash together with his wife on the New Jersey Turnpike on Saturday. The driver of the taxi lost control of the vehicle as he tried to pass another car on the road and crashed into the guard rail, Gregory Williams, a state police sergeant, said. John and Alicia Nash were ejected from the car, Williams said, adding that "it doesn't appear that they were wearing seatbelts.” The driver of the taxi was extracted from the crashed vehicle and flown to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. One of the passengers of the second car involved in the incident, which also crashed into the guard rail, was treated for neck pain, the officer added. John Nash was 86 years old. His wife, Alicia, was 82. They were married for 60 years. The crash occurred as the couple was on their way home from the airport after making a trip to Norway.
INC News, 24/05/2015 - via RT
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