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Witnesses Saw Wrong-Way Driver Get Ill

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(Nov. 9) -- Witnesses saw Diane Schuler pull to the side of the road and get sick before she drove the wrong way down a New York freeway July 26 and caused a deadly car crash, according to police reports obtained by the New York Post.
Schuler first pulled over her minivan at 11:45 a.m. on the day of the crash, the police reports say. Witnesses "noticed an adult female outside of the vehicle with brown hair, wearing blue, knee-length shorts, bent over with her hands on her knees, as if throwing up," the records say.
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She was seen stopping again a short time later just north of a rest stop, the Post reported. At 1:35 p.m., she crashed her vehicle into an SUV carrying three men on the Taconic State Parkway, killing them as well as herself, her 2-year-old daughter and her three young nieces.
Autopsy results released in August showed Schuler was driving drunk and had smoked marijuana before the crash.
Late last week, The Associated Press reported that Schuler's relatives told police she used pot as a way of coping with stress.
Schuler's husband told police she "smoked marijuana once in a while to relieve the stress of work and the kids," a police report said.
Schuler's sister-in-law told police she "didn't believe in medicine and used marijuana to relax," usually smoking after her children went to bed, according to the report.
Relatives of the crash victims got the report Friday during a meeting with police and prosecutors, then made it available to reporters.
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2009-11-09 09:40:47

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JulyChrls
2:58AM Nov 24 2009 
I believe that the cause of her illness and death had to do with the stop at the McDonald's. I believe that she ingested something bad. I am not saying that she was innocent of some alcohol or pot but the cause of her illness and confusion came from yet another source. Her character was to protect those she loved and I really don't think that that was something that changed. Someone gave her something bad, either in the food, or the drugs or the alcohol. There has always been more to this story and people instinctively know that.
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Eeverettm
1:19AM Nov 24 2009 
Booze is our deadliest killer, and it is legal. Wow.
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BTGwyn
11:24AM Nov 23 2009 
Pot is hurtful....my little brother was killed at his busstop by a driver who was high. Its not a FOX...CNN or MSNBC thing....thats real life..not Pineapple Express or The Dead.
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TickyTeresa09
10:26AM Nov 23 2009 
You make me laugh Felix. You see, just because of people like you, saying things like that, us "white girls" can't get away with stuff like that anymore. Every time somebody like you says something like that, there is a little "white guy" making a tally in his notebook, and making it harder for us "white girls" to get away with anything anymore. We're not white, just like blacks aren't "black". So, open your little textbook, and learn something.
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FelixS778
9:03AM Nov 23 2009 
nothing would have happenned to her had she survived.white girls can do anything and get away with it.don't use her kids as an excuse for remorse after the fact.
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Debbeko
7:32AM Nov 23 2009 
Bottom line, she should not have been in the drivers seat. Sick, drunk and high.
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JimMorrisonsFAN
11:02AM Nov 22 2009 
WHY IS EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT WEED AND DRINKING AND WHAT IS WORSE.WE SHOULD ALL BE BLAMING THIS IDIOT FOR BEING HIGH AND DRIVING WITH POOR INNOCENT CHILDREN WHO HAVE NO IDEA OR SAY IN WHAT DID EVENTUALLY HAPPEN.THIER LIVES WIPED OUT WITHOUT A CHANCE . SHE DIED I'M SORRY BUT IF YOU WANT TO DRIVE HIGH OR DRUNK WHICHEVER IT DOES NOT MATTER, CHECK THE BACK SEAT AND MAKE SURE YOUR'S OR OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN ARE NOT THERE. THEN GO ON YOU WAY TO WHEREVER YOU WIND UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Stevelewis1965
10:09AM Nov 22 2009 
B*I*T*C*H*
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Stevelewis1965
10:05AM Nov 22 2009 
Maybe the pot was tainted. Another problem with keeping the weed illegal is you never know ******** potency is or if it has been contaminated or adulterated. Only way to know for sure is if you grow your own, which of course is a felony. Gov't meddling with our constitutional rights to pursuit of happiness, bunch of morons like MagnoliaMomma561.
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Witnesses saw Diane Schuler pull to the side of the road and get sick before she drove the wrong way down a New York freeway July 26, causing a deadly car crash, according to police reports obtained by the New York Post.