Mother Named World Strongest Woman, After Using her Body to Cover her Baby from Storm (See Photos)

Fiona Simpson and her grandmother were driving back from an appointment when it started to rain.

The 23-year-old had not heard the weather reports, so she did not know that a superstorm was quickly approaching Thursday in Queensland, Australia.

She had decided to take her grandmother and her 4-month-old daughter to a coffee shop for the afternoon, she told Australia’s “The Project.”

But the rain got heavier, and then it started to hail, blowing out a back-seat window of Simpson’s vehicle and putting her infant in danger.

Without thinking, Simpson said, she unlatched her seat belt, jumped into the back seat and threw her body over the baby, trying to shield the child from the icy pellets that were pouring into the vehicle.

Ms Simpson, 23, s aved the life of her baby girl but was left with horrific bruising and cuts after hail blew out her car’s back window and windshield near Kingaroy.

“At the end of the day, all that matters is that we’re alive,” she told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) about the ordeal. “A car can be replaced and bruises can heal, and we’re just all safe right now.”

She had now being named as World’s strongest, and is expected to receive a bravery Award from Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.