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Posted: 6:02 a.m. Thursday, April 14, 2011

Sixteen Year Old Cobb Driver Wrecks; Kills Mom

By Bob Coxe

WSB RADIO--Cobb County Police expect to file charges against a 16-year-old driver whose mother was killed in a three-car wreck.  45-year-old Kimberly Nichols of Dallas died at Kennestone Hospital after the Wednesday afternoon smash-up on Due West Road, which tied up traffic for a couple of hours.  Her teenage son is hospitalized with what are described as non-life threatening injuries.  Witnesses told police he turned in front of another car on Hamilton Mill Road.