PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY - John Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician whose life story inspired the movie A Beautiful Mind, and his wife, Alicia Nash, were killed Saturday in a car crash on the New Jersey Turnpike, New Jersey State Police said.

The Nashes were in a taxi traveling southbound in the left lane of the New Jersey Turnpike, State Police Sgt. Gregory Williams told USA TODAY, when the driver lost control while trying to pass another vehicle. The taxi crashed into the guard rail and then into another car in the right lane.

The Nashes were ejected from the taxi, and were pronounced dead at the scene, Williams said. The taxi driver was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

Nash, who shared the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994, was 86, while Alicia Nash was 82. The couple lived in Princeton, N.J., police said, where John Nash was a senior research mathematician at Princeton University. (Source: USA Today)

Story Date: May 26, 2015