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Mom Drives Van Into NY River, Killing Self, 3 Kids
By not in system - AOL NewsNEWBURGH, N.Y. -- A woman who had just been involved in a domestic dispute loaded her four children into a minivan before letting one out and driving the rest of them into the Hudson River, killing herself and the three other children, firefighters said. The 10-year-old boy who had been let out of the minivan Tuesday night ran to a nearby fire station and alerted firefighters, Chief Michael Vatter said. The boy told firefighters his mother had driven off a boat ramp in Newburgh, about 60 miles north of New York City, and into the murky water of the river, Vatter said. Inside with her were the ...
HBO Paying to Exhume Body in Wrong-Way Crash
By Unknown - AOL News(July 27) -- The husband of the woman who crashed while driving the wrong way down a highway in suburban New York has signed a $100,000 movie deal to exhume his wife's body and prove she wasn't drinking at the time of the accident, which killed her and seven others. A year ago, Diane Schuler was driving 85 mph on New York's Taconic Parkway when she crashed head-on into another car. Schuler, her 2-year-old daughter, her three young nieces and three men in the other car were killed. Newsday / MCT A family photo shows Diane and Danny Schuler with children Bryan, left, and Erin. Autopsy ...
Wrong-Way Crash: Painful Anniversary for 4 Families
By Unknown - AOL NewsEDITOR'S NOTE -- This story was published on July 20 and is being reposted today, the anniversary of the tragic crash. YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. (July 20) -- Gramps wasn't here to see his granddaughter graduate from high school, and a beloved brother who loved Christmas couldn't spoil his nieces and nephews with expensive presents. A father and his son face the world without the other half of their family, and another man fights illness without his older brother. And perhaps the hardest loss to imagine: A couple spend their days without the three daughters who had been the center of their ...
Police: NY Driver Was Speeding Before Wrong-Way Crash
By not in system - AOL NewsWHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (June 29) -- The woman blamed for a wrong-way crash that killed eight people on a New York highway last summer was going 85 mph when she slammed into an SUV, state police said Tuesday. The SUV also was speeding, at 74 mph, they said. The speed limit was 55 mph. The July 26 crash on the Taconic Parkway in Westchester County, north of New York City, killed Diane Schuler, who was driving the van, her daughter, three nieces and three men in the other vehicle. Schuler's 5-year-old son survived. Robert Sabo, New York Daily News New York State Police said the driver of a minivan ...
New Info on Taconic Parkway Drunk Driver -- Our Sister's Keeper
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyThe harm she caused was unspeakably catastrophic. Her secret addictions, and her apparent inability to seek help to overcome them, caused Diane Schuler, her daughter, her brother's three children and three men coming the other way to perish on New York's Taconic Parkway one sunny afternoon last July. Schuler was driving the wrong way down the Hudson Valley highway. A staggering percentage of alcohol content and THC were discovered in her blood at autopsy. The preventability of the crash becomes more unambiguous with the release of a police report that, in the hours before the head-on ...
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