Ma dies in h’way flip
Cut off by driver; her kid survives
A TEEN watched her mom die in a horrific weekend crash on a Bronx highway after their SUV swerved out of control to avoid another motorist who cut them off, cops said Sunday.
Michelle Muccio, the varsity cheerleading coach at Cardinal Spellman High School, and her daughter, 16-year-old Francesca, were heading home from a play at the school Saturday when tragedy struck on the New England Thruway, her stunned family said.
Hours earlier, an ebullient Muccio and her team marched in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Midtown.
Muccio, 44, was driving south, with her daughter sitting in the front passenger seat, near Bartow Ave. in Baychester at about 11:30 p.m. when another vehicle cut in front of her 2004 GMC Envoy, cops said.
Muccio spun out of control and into a highway embankment, cops said. Her SUV rolled several times, trapping the mom inside, where she died.
Medics rushed Francesca, who was able to get out of the SUV, to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition.
The other vehicle, which didn’t strike Muccio’s SUV, kept going. It’s not clear if the driver knew the SUV crashed. Police made no arrests as of Sunday night.
“I’m broken-hearted. They took my love. The love of my life, gone,” said Christopher Muccio, 45, Muccio’s husband of 22 years. The couple has two daughters, 15 and 21, in addition to Francesca.
“The one thing I’m grateful for is my daughter is (home). I could’ve lost my kid, too,” he said.
Domenick Muccio, 69, Francesca’s grandfather, said he hopes the other driver surrenders to police.
“I just hope this person comes to his or her senses,” he said.