http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090804/ap_on_re_us/us_wrong_way_crash
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. – A Long Island ****** was very *****, with an extra-large bottle of ***** in her car, and was smoking ********* before she caused a wrong-way crash on a New York highway that ****** her, her young ******** and six others, police said Tuesday.
Diane Schuler's *****-******* level was more than twice the legal limit at the time of the July 26 wreck and she still had undigested ******* in her stomach, police said. ***** tests also showed she had smoked ********* 15 minutes to an hour before the crash, said Betsy Spratt, chief toxicologist for the Westchester County Medical Examiner.
"With that level of ******* ... she would have had difficulty with perception, with her judgment with her memory," Spratt said. "You start to get what we call tunnel vision."
The fiery head-on crash on the Taconic Parkway, about 35 miles northwest of New York City, ****** the 36-year-old ******, her 2-year-old ********, three young nieces and three men in an SUV. Schuler's 5-year-old *** survived. Investigators said Schuler had been driving erratically on other suburban roads before hitting the Taconic Parkway.
State police have been investigating why the businesswoman, who was a regular visitor to an upstate New York campground, would have been driving toward her Long Island home the wrong way on a highway she reportedly had driven many times.
Toxicology reports found Schuler's *****-******* level was 0.19, more than twice the state's legal limit of 0.08, state police Maj. William Carey said. She also had six grams of undigested ******* in her stomach, Carey said.
A broken, 1.75-liter bottle of Absolut ***** was found in the wrecked minivan, Carey said
Well that clears up that I guess.Hopefully people will learn from her very poor judgement and not repeat such actions.
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. – A Long Island ****** was very *****, with an extra-large bottle of ***** in her car, and was smoking ********* before she caused a wrong-way crash on a New York highway that ****** her, her young ******** and six others, police said Tuesday.
Diane Schuler's *****-******* level was more than twice the legal limit at the time of the July 26 wreck and she still had undigested ******* in her stomach, police said. ***** tests also showed she had smoked ********* 15 minutes to an hour before the crash, said Betsy Spratt, chief toxicologist for the Westchester County Medical Examiner.
"With that level of ******* ... she would have had difficulty with perception, with her judgment with her memory," Spratt said. "You start to get what we call tunnel vision."
The fiery head-on crash on the Taconic Parkway, about 35 miles northwest of New York City, ****** the 36-year-old ******, her 2-year-old ********, three young nieces and three men in an SUV. Schuler's 5-year-old *** survived. Investigators said Schuler had been driving erratically on other suburban roads before hitting the Taconic Parkway.
State police have been investigating why the businesswoman, who was a regular visitor to an upstate New York campground, would have been driving toward her Long Island home the wrong way on a highway she reportedly had driven many times.
Toxicology reports found Schuler's *****-******* level was 0.19, more than twice the state's legal limit of 0.08, state police Maj. William Carey said. She also had six grams of undigested ******* in her stomach, Carey said.
A broken, 1.75-liter bottle of Absolut ***** was found in the wrecked minivan, Carey said
Well that clears up that I guess.Hopefully people will learn from her very poor judgement and not repeat such actions.
