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Report: New York Mother Driving During Deadly Wrong-Way Crash Drunk, High
Foxnews ^ | 8/4/2009 | Staff

Posted on 08/04/2009 10:45:39 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA

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To: meyer
I know her 9 year old Niece took the cell phone and spoke to her father. Too bad he should have told her to take the keys and throw them in the Hudson or across the Thruway. So sad.
81 posted on 08/04/2009 12:12:47 PM PDT by angcat (GOOD LORD PLEASE HELP THE USA!)
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To: LucyJo

If she was in a drunken rage....She should have just pulled over on the TZ bridge and jumped...


82 posted on 08/04/2009 12:20:12 PM PDT by geege
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To: LucyJo

Right. But in this case the drunk driver is dead, so there’s no legal mechanism for a criminal prosecution. She can’t defend herself, so she can’t be charged with a crime posthumously.


83 posted on 08/04/2009 12:22:21 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (God is great, beer is good . . . and people are crazy.)
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To: geege

Nobody would have cared if she jumped. She had to make sure that her death was spectacular.


84 posted on 08/04/2009 12:22:22 PM PDT by angcat (GOOD LORD PLEASE HELP THE USA!)
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To: justkate

justkate, please don’t get me wrong, quite frankly, as far as I’m concerned, if this imbecile had been simply whacked out on Nyquil and Benedryl, my opinion of her would be the same as it is now, regardless of the intoxicant.

That being said, I do think there needs to be a reliable test of use versus intoxication / impairment, much the same as there currently exists for alcohol.


85 posted on 08/04/2009 12:25:13 PM PDT by Lord_Baltar
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To: Neets

You know that area - simply impossible.


86 posted on 08/04/2009 12:31:56 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: Senator Pardek

My daughter totaled her car on that very road,( a few miles north of this incident, ) about a month ago. Her first comment when she heard the woman was going the wrong way would be in agreement with you and I.


87 posted on 08/04/2009 12:45:15 PM PDT by Neets
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To: milwguy
I am sure it was the booze and not the potent weed she was smoking that made her disoriented. At 1:30 in the afternoon how drunk you think she was? What was the BAC reported to be?

Look for more of this if California is stupid enough to legalize pot.

"Schuler's blood-alcohol level was a eye-popping 0.19 -- nearly 2½ times the legal limit of 0.08, according to the report."

88 posted on 08/04/2009 12:59:53 PM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter
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To: Alberta's Child

True. But, it’s interesting that homicide charges have been filed despite her death.

Can a person be charged for knowingly allowing someone to drive in that condition when it results in those circumstances, I wonder? Even so, it would be tricky to prove, I guess.

Maybe it has something to do with civil suits that might be filed. I have no idea.


89 posted on 08/04/2009 1:27:40 PM PDT by LucyJo
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To: angcat

As useless as it is, I keep wishing those kids had gotten out of the car when she stopped and refused to get back inside until their dad showed up. I wonder why they didn’t. One of the children talked with her dad after the driver called her brother. Why call him instead of her husband?

It surely sounds like there had been something that happened before she left the campground.


90 posted on 08/04/2009 1:37:08 PM PDT by LucyJo
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To: Lord_Baltar

Yes Chicago needs to give those ganstas shovel ready jobs. We know it worked in the 20’s.


91 posted on 08/04/2009 2:14:41 PM PDT by Marty62
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To: LucyJo
I should be more clear about this . . . no formal charges have been filed against anyone at all, but the county prosecutor has apparently indicated that this is a homicide investigation at least for now.

He certainly can't be charging the dead driver with anything, but there may be legal reasons to list this as a homicide investigation.

92 posted on 08/04/2009 2:52:54 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (God is great, beer is good . . . and people are crazy.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Ok, thanks. That does make it clear. (Not your fault that I was so dense. lol.)


93 posted on 08/04/2009 3:16:40 PM PDT by LucyJo
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To: LucyJo

A bottle of Absolut vodka was recovered from Schuler’s car, police said.

Investigators said Schuler drank the equivalent of 10 drinks of vodka, although State police was not sure what time she began drinking.

State police also said Schuler smoked marijuana 15 minutes to an hour before the crash — meaning she was drunk and using drugs while with the kids.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08042009/news/regionalnews/wrong_way_driver_was_drunk_and_high_182966.htm


94 posted on 08/04/2009 3:40:50 PM PDT by angcat (GOOD LORD PLEASE HELP THE USA!)
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To: angcat

It’s inconceivable that a sane mother could endanger the lives of her children and her brother’s children in that way, not to mention the lives of others. It’s inconceivable that her husband would allow her to leave with the children if she was drinking, smoking dope, or upset enough to trigger that type of behavior.

I know drunks endanger lives every day, but, something about this story seems to be missing. If my own sister or s-i-l had a history of this type of behavior, there is no way I would let my children get into a vehicle with her. If she were a family member, I would certainly do all in my power to see that she didn’t harm her own children.

It just boggles the mind.


95 posted on 08/04/2009 4:35:49 PM PDT by LucyJo
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To: LucyJo

One of those instances in life where I wish people had a chance for a do-over.


96 posted on 08/04/2009 10:52:44 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: beaversmom

I know, and my heart just breaks for everyone involved. There are always “if onlies” after tragedies.


97 posted on 08/04/2009 10:59:54 PM PDT by LucyJo
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To: Senator Pardek

My guess is she was really upset that her husband was going on a fishing trip. She probably thought he was cheating.


98 posted on 08/04/2009 11:00:22 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: LucyJo
Absolutely true - I figure we'll find out more of this story and her history/behaivor and apparent “high tolerance” for alcohol because most women would've passed out way before her level which equaled 10 drinks of vodka....and adding marijuana into the mix - This woman and anyone who KNEW she was impaired or her history to drink and smoke POT while driving....it's criminal.

I don't know how her family - her brother and sisterinlaw can cope with this devastation

99 posted on 08/05/2009 5:03:57 AM PDT by SunnyUsa (I'm not one of those "who are we to judge?" people)
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To: SunnyUsa

I’m visiting NH and this story is big up here. There is definitely something fishy about it. Who drinks at 9 in the morning, and if it was a habit her husband and brother would surely have known it and not let her drive. Why wouldn’t you notice if you were going the wrong way on a highway? Wouldn’t all the people swerving and honking at you give you a clue? The kids must have been going crazy, it’s too bad one of them couldn’t have gotten control of the wheel. If she wanted to commit suicide, why would she also kill her kids and her brother’s daughters? It is a true tragedy and I feel incredibly sorry for the families of all those killed so senselessly.


100 posted on 08/05/2009 12:33:49 PM PDT by The Right Stuff
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