<p>I personally don’t agree that the husband knew nothing. Both drinking and marijuana smoking are detectable. I don’t care if she was drinking vodka, the “odorless” booze. I can still smell it on someone. And pot? Forget it! People reek of pot smoke: their hair, their clothes, etc. Even the biggest dumbass on the planet would have to know what she was up to. If the sister-in-law knew, you’re telling me the husband was oblivious? Heck, no! He’s just out to save his own hide and avoid a lawsuit. </p>
<p>His actions that day are mystifying. He allowed her to drive five kids home alone? With a planned stop at McD’s for breakfast? She’s supposed to wrangle all those kids by herself? What kind of husband would do that? The bad kind! From the beginning, I have felt that people are hiding what they know through lying and avoidance.</p>
<p>Apparently more tests were run on the body fluids and tissues of Diane Schuler. Her husband paid for the tests, which were done in March, but has not chosen to make the results public. Considering how staunchly he defended her to the media and how vigorously he, his lawyer, and “private investigator” attempted to discredit the autopsy toxicology results, it seems strange that they are now so quiet. Additionally, there was a lot of talk earlier this year about Daniel Schuler’s intention to exhume his wife’s body in order to do further testing, but I’ve not read anything to suggest that this has actually taken place.</p>
<p>I’ve been seeing articles recently about the accident as the year anniversary of the tragedy approaches. Have any of you in the Long Island area read anything that would support Daniel Schuler’s assertion that his wife was not drunk and high on marijuana on the day of the accident, but was in fact suffering from a medical condition such as diabetes, a stroke, or aneurysm? </p>
<p>This accident still bothers me to this day. I just cannot imagine the life of Diane’s brother and SIL after losing all three of their daughters. How they find the strength to get out of bed every day is beyond me…</p>
<p>“WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The woman blamed for a wrong-way crash that killed eight people on a New York highway last summer was going 85 mph when she slammed into an SUV, state police said Tuesday.
The SUV also was speeding, at 74 mph, they said. The speed limit was 55 mph.
The July 26 crash on the Taconic Parkway in Westchester County, north of New York City, killed Diane Schuler, who was driving the van, her daughter, three nieces and three men in the other vehicle. Schuler’s 5-year-old son survived.”</p>
<p>The Hance family has started a foundation in their daughters’ memories to help children in need. </p>
<p>You’ll need a few tissues to view the photos of their beautiful daughters and the comments people have posted to their parents, Warren and Jackie, on the foundation web site.</p>
<p>I have no idea how you’d get out of bed in the morning after something like this happened. I seriously would take to bed, eat ice cream by the gallon and cry for the rest of my life.</p>
<p>I don’t think I could get out of bed either. One day you have three kids and the next you’re not a mom anymore. God bless them all. I would be consumed by rage.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s unjust at all to be enraged at your sister after she barrelled down the wrong side of the highway, drunk and/or doped up, and killed your three kids. AND killed your two nieces AND killed three innocent strangers.</p>
<p>Well, in the case of the mother of the three young girls, the rage would be directed at her former sister in law. While I don’t advocate lifelong rage as it would end up eating away at your soul like a cancer, I could definitely understand at least short term anger. Ms. Schuler was grossly negligent-she was an intelligent adult who understood that it is both illegal and extremely unwise to consume alcohol and marijuana while driving an automobile. She didn’t respect the responsibility she undertook and innocent children and adult bystanders have also had to pay the ultimate price for her selfishness. I think that could understandably generate at least a little rage.</p>
<p>By starting the Hance Foundation, it’s clear that the Hances are attempting to channel their grief into a constructive endeavor. God bless 'em.</p>
<p>IS there a reason one can not be angry at a sibling? My sister and I both despise our brother and have for years. We have very good reasons and feel no guilt about these feelings. He’s a loser addict who has robbed our parents of much happiness over many, many years.</p>
<p>In this kind of case? Where we’re not talking about an unfortunate accident that could happen to a cautious, reasonable driver, but an egregious, horrible, deliberate lack of judgment in taking drugs / drinking and then driving my kids around? There are people who could rise above such feelings and forgive, but I’m pretty sure I’m not among them.</p>
<p>I didn’t mean that you couldn’t get angry at your siblings. Just that it won’t be as therapeutic as at a stranger. For parents of the three girls, it’s deeper than rage I would think, some sense of betrayal as well?</p>