Taylor Swift has donated $50,000 to help a Rhode Island mother who was left seriously injured in car accident last month, NBC News has confirmed. <\/p>\n
Ashley Taunton, a married mother of three, was driving on I-95 in Hopkinton during a torrential rainstorm on July 18 when she saw a car in front of her hydroplane off the road. She pulled over and ran to help the teenagers inside the crashed vehicle, her husband, Joe Taunton, told NBC affiliate WJAR of Providence<\/a>.<\/p>\n As she was helping them, another vehicle hydroplaned and barreled toward them, he said.<\/p>\n \u201cIn a split-second act of pure bravery, Ashley pushed the other person out of harm\u2019s way, taking the brunt of the impact herself,\u201d according to an online fundraiser to support her medical bills.<\/p>\n Joe Taunton said his wife suffered a severe leg injury and extensive internal injuries, including damage to her small and large intestines, liver lacerations and a ruptured diaphragm that caused one of her lungs to collapse. She has undergone at least three surgeries, he said.<\/p>\n Ashley Taunton has documented her recovery on social media, <\/a>sharing photos from her hospital bed while in an induced coma, with a nasogastric tube for a small bowel obstruction, staples on her stomach, and \u2014 more recently \u2014 back home in a leg brace.<\/p>\n On Friday, she posted on Instagram<\/a> about Swift\u2019s donation, writing: \u201cThis is absolutely mind-blowing and so very humbling.\u201d<\/p>\n