16-year-old victim in fatal Seekonk crash had survived cancer twice
“No matter what this world threw at her, and it threw some hard things her way, she always had a smile on her face.”
A 16-year-old girl from New Bedford, the victim of a fatal traffic crash in Seekonk Sunday night, was a cancer survivor who had beaten acute lymphoblastic leukemia twice.Gisela Carrier was sitting in the backseat of a 2001 Chrysler 300 driven by her mom, with her little brother, 14, riding shotgun, when it was rear-ended by a pickup truck while slowed for traffic on I-195 around 8 p.m. The impact of the crash pushed the backseat, where Carrier was sitting while wearing her seatbelt, toward the front of the car, and she had to be freed by emergency responders, according to The Providence Journal. She later died at a hospital.The force of the crash pushed the Chrysler into the back of a 2005 Acura, which then rear-ended a 2017 Lexus, state police said.Carrier’s mom, Laney, and her brother, Danny, were both injured in the crash and have since been released, the Journal reported.A GoFundMe has been set up for Carrier’s memorial service. As of around 11:45 a.m. Friday, it had raised over $18,200, well over its $15,000 goal, in two days.“As some have seen on the news, We lost a strong, sweet, beautiful young lady Sunday night in a tragic auto accident,” the fundraising campaign says. “Our Beautiful Fighter Gisela, is now our Beautiful Angel in Heaven. Gisela fought many battles throughout her short life, but now she can rest peacefully.”Carrier was first diagnosed with leukemia when she was 7, according to the Journal, and fought it for three years until at age 10 when doctors said she was cancer free. But the disease returned when she was 11. Then, in June 2016, she celebrated once again beating it.“No matter what this world threw at her,” Laney Mott, her mother, told the newspaper, “and it threw some hard things her way, she always had a smile on her face.”
Only on 10- family members of a New Bedford teen who beat cancer TWICE & was killed in a car crash on 195 on Sunday is speaking out. 16-year-old Gisela Carrier is described as a “fighter” with a larger than life personality.. so tragic. More @ 11. @NBC10 pic.twitter.com/ZMNiybgKNK
— Sam Read (@NBC10_Sam) March 6, 2020
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