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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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