UPDATE:Eight dead in fiery NY car wreck

what a horrible accident.

if they had H1N1 would they count it as flu deaths with underlying causes?

That's fucked up, but lol.


I saw an accident in NJ two years ago where a family wrecked a minivan, and two people burned. One managed to make it out and died on the pavement. I still can't get those images out of my head. But good god, eight people, a bunch of kids. I'm just beside myself. I also had a good friend of mine get killed on that same highway, the Taconic State Parkway.

That is so awful. God rest their little souls.

It's sad, you can just what happened. She was not paying attention and yelling at the kids and drove the wrong way. I really feel for the family. All her sibling's kids died. That's fucked up. Don't entrust your kids to anyone.

Sucks about the three guys too. See what not paying attention does, assholes? Think about this the next time you're driving and texting and eating a taco.might not be the only thing you eat, but the last ting for sure....

it was reported that she was feeling Ill 2 hours before the trip...she is from an area that has been ravaged by swine flu...the autopsy will test for it..we shall see

dementia in some swine flu patients...otherwise healthy...has been reported in some cases

Here's an interesting detail:

Another witness, Richard Rowe of Tarrytown, said in an e-mail that he was northbound on the Taconic.

“We could see the minivan coming towards us southbound in the far left northbound lane,” he wrote. “The minivan did not seem to swerve, get in the median, or move into any other lane. It was deliberately driving inside the lane, in the wrong direction, at a very high rate of speed. We were just north of the accident so it must have just happened after the minivan passed us. To us, the minivan seemed to be driving very deliberately in that lane, despite people honking and flashing lights at it.”

she thought she was on a two way highway...didnt realize she was on a one way two land road...

I'm betting she was on the phone.

Hmmmm, interesting.

+1

Well, if she thought she was in the right, she would be traveling "deliberately" without swerving at a high rate of speed. It's a dangerous highway with no shoulder. You better keep up the pace or get the fuck off.

So again, if she had a phone glued to her ear, her brain probably just didn't process what was actually happening, and she was on "auto-pilot" about how to drive on the Taconic.

Quite possible. Or she just simply thought she was in the proper set of lanes.

The Taconic is not like a lot of highways that have a smiple divider or somesuch dividing opposite directions. The lanes meander off quite a distance, so that you can't even see the opposite bound traffic lanes a lot of the time. For those who don't know this highway.

did this happen in the underpass you sleep in Jackinthebox. did it wake you up?

[link to www.newsday.com]

Lisa Acosta, 42, who lives across 14th Street from the house Schuler, her children and her husband, Daniel, called home, said Monday she was devastated to hear the news of the crash - and still can't understand how it happened.

"This is a road she could have done blindfolded," Acosta said. "Something's wrong."

Acosta said Schuler and her husband went camping "almost every weekend" at a spot up near Monticello, not far from where the crash occurred.

She said Daniel Schuler, 37, had not gone camping over the weekend - instead going fishing with his brother.

She said the Schulers moved into the house about seven years ago. She said Diane worked for Cablevision and Daniel worked for the Nassau County Police Department.

Yup, she was on the phone. She WAS doing it blindfolded, mentally speaking. She just took the wrong ramp and it was all over. Her brain never even registered the fact that she was on the wrong highway.

I think she was on the phone as well. But even so, on a road she was familiar with how could she not know the on ramp was different the landmarks were different? What a tragidy for all the innocent victims.

I don't know, but certainly, as they were in transit to Weiwelsbad, Germany, they didn't die in the Iraq/Afghanistan War.

There's more to this story than what we know at the moment.

There were 4 adults in the minivan and 4 children. One adult died (the driver) and three kids (the fourth is in stable condition). Three additional adults died in the car she hit.

Now....what of the three adults in the minivan with her? I think we'll be hearing from them at some point, as to her mental status, etc. She was driving at a "high rate of speed" the wrong way, on a route she took every weekend. The drivers that saw her honked their horns and flashed their lights. At the very least, the surviving adults in the minivan with her know what happened.

I suspect we'll find out.

Prayers to the families all around.

Well they can't give her the death penalty for it.

I've been on that hwy several times traveling from Maine to Georgia, beautiful road, but I could see how such an accident could happen. Damned sad, peace to the families.

It doesn't take much to get disoriented at those interchanges. And even though she knew the road, she may have taken a different exit than usual or somesuch. And with the mind on auto pilot like that, all she was seeing was "Parkway" not "wrong way."

There weren't 4 adults in the minivan. There was one adult, the driver, along with 5 children.

Three adults were killed in the SUV she hit.

Well they dont have to do they. And a lot of innocent people got the death penalty too because of her stupidity. Cell phone or not, she obviously should not have been driving.

It really is a nice road, but very dangerous nonetheless, for a variety of unique reason as well as standard highway dangers.

<<<UPDATE>>>

[link to www.poughkeepsiejournal.com]

Autopsy shows no medical condition. However, she called family and indicated that she was ill in some way that police won't release details of. However, she was aparrently ill enough for family to call police to search for her. I heard in another report that she was disoriented and couldn't tell family where she was.

Now is is just me, or does that sound like some freaky programming type shit?

Last Edited by Jackinthebox on 07/29/2009 11:36 AM

maybe she was having a mental breakdown or extreme anxiety attack. if i had that many kids in the van with me i would be suffering from both.

i feel bad for the mom of the three cousins. i wish the boy who had survived had her for a mom. then at least she wouldn't have lost all her babies and he wouldn't have lost his mommy.

SO SAD!

so bad no matter how u do it. i think maybe a deer tick lyme disease might have done it. ive had lyme, will always heve lyme no one understands til they have lyme

so bad no matter how u do it. i think maybe a deer tick lyme disease might have done it. ive had lyme, will always heve lyme no one understands til they have lyme