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If you run a google news query on "wrong way driver" you find 17,000 results. The first couple of pages are about drunk wrong way drivers that have killed people. It happens all of the time. Here in NY it has happened (without the killing) 5 times in the last six months in Westchester County...

After considering this more and more, I'm leaning toward an alcohol-induced blackout in which she was not conscious, although her body was still functioning. (snip) 3.1. Definition An alcoholic blackout is amnesia for the events of any part of a drinking episode without loss of consciousness...

Well, the ultimate problem with your assessment of the evidence in this case is that the science doesn't support it. I'd love to entertain an alternate explanation, but the autopsy showed she drank a lot of alcohol. Perhaps she smoked the pot the night before, who knows? The issue seems to be...

Apparently, I was wrong about that. There were 2 911 calls before she got on the Taconic going the wrong way and 4 while she was going the wrong way. If I am reading the report properly, those 2 calls came in when she was getting on the Taconic to go north and she was aggressively going onto the...

The autopsy didn't say so because it is not true. There is not evidence of anything besides the alcohol and pot. While it is possible that she had tooth pain or a headache and turned to the alcohol and pot to quell that, the fact still remains that she had consumed too much alcohol. I suspect...

Schuler, a manager in Cablevision's accounting department, would suck down screwdrivers at a Long Island saloon, where she was a regular the past few years and usually came by herself, her pal said, adding: "I wouldn't say she was an alcoholic, but she liked her drinks. "She liked her...

Over at People you'll see in hell, there is a page about Diane Schuler on which a user who did a lot of research about the case has posted the murder/suicide theory. http://pysih.com/2009/09/02/diane-schuler/ I have to disagree with his analysis that she planned it from the beginning that...

My wife drives that stretch of highway 3 days a week to go to/from work. The thing that struck me about the whole story was this: Diane Schuler didn't go off course until she took that phone call from her brother or until the niece called her brother. She was on course toward Long Island until...

Earlier on this board I suggested Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). The thing is in Europe they call this emotionally unstable personality disorder and in China they call it impulsive personality disorder. My wife, who previously had the symptoms and was diagnosed but now has fallen below...

I google mapped the route that she should have taken home, just to see how long it should have taken her and the timing of the whole thing. The approximate length of the journey from Parksville to Floral Park is about 120 miles. Google maps estimates the time of the journey to be 2 hours, 17...

She lived on Long Island. It would have been impossible for her to drop the kids off at home as she was upstate that morning. I drove that stretch of highways this weekend. I was struck with the fact that when I went through the toll booths on the Tappan Zee Bridge (where she took the call...

Another quick thing, if I can be so presumptuous as to quote myself... The phone was left there right after she had the conversation with her brother and her niece told her dad "there's something wrong with aunt diane". The contents of that phone call (which are unknown), led me to the theory...

The phone was found on top of the concrete abutment in the emergency lane off the Tappan Zee bridge on the Eastern side of the bridge. Diane must have just gone through the toll booth. If she was THAT drunk at that time, it would seem like a toll collector would have noticed. Although I think...

Well, the video was shot from a car going in the proper direction and then reversed, so it's a bit weird to watch. They were going 50 mph, I think. Can you imagine what it would have been like if the other cars were coming 55 mph (the speed limit there) or faster in the other direction? You're...

Yeah me too. It's such a horrible thing. Sad, sad, sad.