Taconic car crash

[executioneer]

sudden-onset psychosis

[Jeanette X]

Maybe when her son comes out of the hospital he'll be able to shed some light on it...assuming he isn't brain damaged.

[elx]

yeah, all of the kids should have been old enough to understand that something was going wrong, they must've been really scared

[Colonel Flagg]

Originally Posted by Jeanette X

Maybe when her son comes out of the hospital he'll be able to shed some light on it...assuming he isn't brain damaged.

I wonder how her brother is handling things - the one she called from the parkway. I don't remember if it was mentioned, but if 3 of the kids were her nieces/nephews, then was he their father? If it were me, I'd be damned near suicidal.

This story has so many levels of sadness, it has "movie of the week" written all over it.

[Jeanette X]

Originally Posted by Colonel Flagg

I wonder how her brother is handling things - the one she called from the parkway. I don't remember if it was mentioned, but if 3 of the kids were her nieces/nephews, then was he their father? If it were me, I'd be damned near suicidal.

Yeah, he was the father. To his credit, he called the police as soon as he got off the phone with her.

Her husband is disputing the autopsy results and insisting that she must've had something medically wrong with her. I smell denial.

I think it might have been a suicide mission. One of the eyewitnesses (a man in another car who narrowly avoided being hit by her) said that she appeared to be control of the car and not swerving or anything, and she was even following the curve of the road. The New York Post reports that she was a regular at a bar and talked about having marital problems and a stressful job while she was there.

This story has so many levels of sadness, it has "movie of the week" written all over it.

Yeah. One of the responders on the scene was at the World Trade Center on 9/11 and said that this was worse.

[Zhukov]

Maybe someone fed her the alcohol/pot without her knowing it.

Sad story.

[Dimnos]

Originally Posted by Zhukov

Maybe someone fed her the alcohol/pot without her knowing it.

Sad story.

Like someone slipped her a micky!

[Jeanette X]

Originally Posted by Zhukov

Maybe someone fed her the alcohol/pot without her knowing it.

Diane Schuler was 5'2 and she wasn't fat. With ten shots of hard liquor in her system, she should not have been able to stand up, let alone drive a car in ANY capacity. The booze should have killed her through alcohol poisoning. Therefore, she must've had an extremely high tolerance...the kind of tolerance that only very heavy drinkers develop. She must've been a closet alcoholic.

[Zhukov]

Originally Posted by Jeanette X

Diane Schuler was 5'2 and she wasn't fat. With ten shots of hard liquor in her system, she should not have been able to stand up, let alone drive a car in ANY capacity. The booze should have killed her through alcohol poisoning. Therefore, she must've had an extremely high tolerance...the kind of tolerance that only very heavy drinkers develop. She must've been a closet alcoholic.

Maybe it was put in her drink bottle and she drank it all just before getting in the car, or during the trip.