Image.jpg' alt='Wrong Way Driver Crash 60 Way' title='Wrong Way Driver Crash 60 Way' />Taconic State Parkway crash. The 2. 00. 9 Taconic State Parkway crash was a traffic collision that occurred shortly after 1 3. Sunday, July 2. 6, 2. Taconic State Parkway in the town of Mount Pleasant, near the village of Briarcliff Manor, New York. Eight people were killed when a minivan being driven by 3. Wrong Way Driver Crash 60 Way' title='Wrong Way Driver Crash 60 Way' />State police say a 77yearold woman driving the wrong way on Interstate 91 was killed in a headon crash in Wallingford. Diane Schuler traveled 1. SUV. The deaths included Schuler, her daughter and three nieces, and the three passengers in the SUV. The crash was the worst fatal motor vehicle accident to occur in Westchester County3 since July 2. Ossining claimed 2. A teenage driver lost control of her car while she was livestreaming on Instagram and recorded part of the crash that authorities say killed. WPRI 12 Eyewitness News on WPRI. Providence, New Bedford, Fall River news and weather. Were coverage you can count on in Rhode Island and Southeastern. Three killed in wrongway crash on I85. Posted July 19, 2015 Updated July 20, 2015. The ensuing investigation into the crashs cause received nationwide attention. Toxicology tests conducted by the medical examiner revealed that Schuler was heavily intoxicated with both alcohol and marijuana at the time of the crash. Schulers husband, Daniel, has consistently denied that she used drugs or alcohol excessively, and has made multiple national media appearances to defend his wife and call for further investigation into other possible medical causes for her erratic driving. An independent investigator hired by the Schuler family obtained DNA testing and toxicology testing of Schulers samples, and also confirmed the results of the original testing. Day of incidenteditAt approximately 9 3. Sunday, July 2. 6, 2. Diane Schuler left the Hunter Lake Campground in Parksville, New York, in a red 2. Ford Windstar that belonged to her brother. Riding with Schuler were her 5 year old son and 2 year old daughter, and her brothers three daughters ages 8, 7, and 5. Her husband, Daniel Schuler, left the campground at the same time in a separate vehicle since he had a pickup truck and took the dog with him. A co owner of the campground later said that Diane Schuler appeared sober when she departed. On the way to West Babylon, Schuler stopped at a Mc. Donalds fast food restaurant and a gas station in Liberty. While at the gas station, it is claimed on surveillance video with no sound that she attempted to buy over the counter pain relief medication, possibly for a painful tooth, but the gas station did not sell any. Schuler left Liberty just after 1. Route 1. 7Interstate 8. Pub/p3/AJC/2012/08/16/Images/photos.medleyphoto.2465027.jpg?uuid=xSYY1TAMRLS6om3zNUg-ng' alt='Wrong Way Driver Crash 60 Way' title='Wrong Way Driver Crash 60 Way' />The Carrollton bus collision occurred on May 14, 1988, on Interstate 71 in unincorporated Carroll County, Kentucky. Involving a former school bus in use by a church. They went in too fast. Carrie Underwood Look At Me Lyrics Download App. I wish Id been driving Princess Dianas driver breaks his 20year silence on the night she died in fatal Paris crash. Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCARs most popular driver for the past 14 years in a row, announced a few months ago that hed retire at the end of the season. Hearing. The California Highway Patrol stopped a wrongway driver on a freeway in Mission Valley early Monday. An 80yearold woman injured when a car driving the wrong way on U. S. 52 slammed headon into the vehicle she was riding in has died, WinstonSalem police. New York Thruway Interstate 8. Ramapo service area, and crossing the Tappan Zee Bridge, heading east. Several witnesses later reported seeing a red minivan driving aggressively on Route 1. Interstate 8. 6 and Interstate 8. Desahogo De Vista De Contestacion De Demanda Mercantil. At 1. 1 3. 7 a. m., Schuler called Warren Hance, her brother and father of her three nieces, from the van. She reportedly told him that they were being delayed by traffic. According to a police report, Schuler was seen by witnesses at approximately 1. Ramapo rest stop. At about 1 p. m., another call was made to Hance from Schulers cell phone. During this call, one of Schulers nieces reportedly told her father that Schuler was having trouble seeing and speaking clearly. Schuler herself then talked to Hance and said that she was disoriented and couldnt see clearly. Police believe that the car was stopped in a pull off area beyond the Tappan Zee Bridge tollbooths for at least part of this call. Hance reportedly told Schuler to stay off the road while he came to meet them follow up calls from Hance to Schuler were not answered. For some unknown reason, she left her cell phone on the highway, which was found by another motorist by the side of the road near the toll lanes of the Tappan Zee Bridge. Investigators were trying to determine how and why Schuler got from the bridge to the Taconic State Parkway ramps near Briarcliff Manor, New York, which is where the next information in this timeline comes from. At 1 3. 3 p. m., two drivers called 9. Schulers van edging onto the northbound exit ramp of the Taconic State Parkway near Briarcliff Manor. The end of the exit ramp 4. N7. 34. 85. 1W 4. N 7. 3. 8. 14. 03. W 4. 1. 1. 42. Pleasantville Road, is marked with two signs that read Do Not Enter and two signs that read One Way. Within the next minute, four more 9. The van traveled south for 1. Chevrolet Trail. Blazer, which then struck a 2. Chevrolet Tracker. At the time of impact, Schuler was traveling approximately 8. Schuler, her daughter, and two of her nieces were dead at the scene of the crash the children did not appear to have been in car seats, or even to have had seatbelts fastened, along with the three men in the Trail. Blazer 8. 1 year old Michael Bastardi, his 4. Guy, and their friend, 7. Dan Longo. The two occupants of the Tracker suffered only minor injuries. Schulers severely injured third niece and Schulers 5 year old son Bryan were taken to area hospitals, where the niece died later that day. Bryan is the only passenger of Schulers vehicle to survive, suffering from broken bones and severe head trauma. He remained hospitalized before returning home in early October. Two men who witnessed the accident and smoke rising out of the van ran to assist the occupants. After removing Schuler from the van, the two men saw a large, broken Absolut Vodka bottle by the drivers side. The men tried to pull the girls out of the van, and noted that they had no pulse. Because the children possibly were not seat belted in and thrown together, the men did not even notice Bryan stuck under another child. Intoxication levelseditThe investigation of the collision drew nationwide attention, as Schulers husband strongly disagreed with the conclusion that she was heavily intoxicated at the time of the crash. A toxicology report released on August 4 by Westchester Countymedical examiners found that Schuler had a blood alcohol content BAC of 0. The legal BAC limit for Driving While Intoxicated in New York State is 0. The report also said that Schuler had high levels of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, in her system. She could have smoked marijuana as recently as fifteen minutes before the accident. Daniel Schuler and his attorney, Dominic Barbara, first denied that Diane did drugs or was drinking that weekend at the lake since several children were with them. Hedisambiguation needed then changed the story and consistently denied that she ever drank to excess or could have been drunk while driving that day. When Larry King and Oprah Winfrey asked Daniel about the vodka in the van, Daniel claimed that they always kept an old bottle in their camper. He further stated that Diane did all the packing for the camping trip, so she must have moved the bottle into the van. Neither King nor Oprah seemed convinced, and continued to question him. Daniel eventually admitted that he and his wife had been drinking during the camping trip, but denied that Diane had anything to drink on the day preceding the crash. The campground co owner who knew the Schulers well saw them off at approximately 9 a. Diane appeared sober. The gas station employee whom Schuler asked for Tylenol at around 1. I knew for a fact that she wasnt drunk when she came into the station. According to Tom Ruskin an investigator supposedly hired by Daniel for 3. Mc. Donalds employees saw anything in Dianes behavior to suggest that she was intoxicated. In fact, she was observed carrying on an extended conversation while ordering her food and orange juice. Ruskin told reporters in September that he had interviewed relatives, none of whom had ever seen her in a drunken state.