this is sergeant temple. my name is brad. i m actually trying to help a friend right now. they re on their way home from a connecting trip with their aunt. they just called my friend, saying that the aunt is driving erratically, that they are at a rest center. the best thing they can understand is that they are in tarrytown and those are the signs that they saw. okay. the aunt isn t picking up the cell phone right now. do you know what kind of car they re in? yeah, they are in a minivan, red, with a ski rack on it. jackie is flipping out. she can t remember the license plate number. just based on what miss jackie hance told me, that this was out of character for her sister-in-law not to answer the phone, and also the fact that one of the children had mention that had her aunt wasn t feeling well. i asked mrs. hance if diane schuler had any history of medical problems. i think i even asked her, you know, if she had any history of drug abuse.
it s just i m going where i want to go, i m doing what i need to do, i m where i want to be. and then she went around the bend on to the highway itself. we know that diane schuler enters the taconic state parkway going south in the northbound lane approximately 1.7 miles north of the point of impact. she drives this 1.7 miles at a high rate of speed, and you have half a dozen callers to 911. state police, 911. state police, you ve been northbound taconic, there s a minivan in the right lane going southbound. 911. hi, i m on the taconic expressway, just passed exit 100-c. there s a car going like 70 miles an hour in the wrong direction. it was very surreal seeing it coming at you so what you had to do, thank god nobody was on the side. i was able to go over a couple of lanes as the van came by me and i said at the time 70 miles an hour.
so a car fire and fatality? yes, numerous fatalities? numerous fatalities? 4.1 northbound taconic. diane schuler drives against traffic for 1.7 miles in the fast lane, never veers, seems to have a serene, almost oblivious look on her face. and kills eight people, the worst accident in recent memory. diane schuler hits the vehicle, which then crashes into vehicle number three, and the schuler vehicle goes off the road, down the hill, rotating, and eventually begins to burn. a lady was screaming? spanish, there were kids in the car. i went down the hill with this other fella. we were trying to get the door off. the door wouldn t open. we couldn t get the slider door. we were looking for the driver, we couldn t find her. the car was fully engulfed in
saying that the aunt is driving erratically, that they are at a rest center. the best thing they can understand is that they are in tarrytown and those are the signs that they saw. okay. the aunt isn t picking up the cell phone right now. do you know what kind of car they re in? yeah, they are in a minivan, red, with a ski rack on it. jackie is flipping out. she can t remember the license plate number. just based on what miss jackie had told me, that this was out of character for her sister-in-law not to answer the phone, and also the fact that one of the children had mention that had her aunt wasn t feeling well. i asked mrs. hance if diane schuler had any history of medical problems. i think i even asked her, you know, if she had any history of drug abuse. again, these are questions that i would ask anybody, and she said, no, so at that point i kind of treated it as an overdue
he was madly in love with her. and i said he met the right girl finally. she was lovely. she was so motherly. you know, i mean, i spoiled my son, danny, and she spoiled him. she would calm him she calmed him down. she was the boss. she made all the decisions and danny was like her oldest child, you know, and he he loved diane. diane, like i said, made all the decisions, and he was like her oldest boy. yeah. diane, she was an amazing woman. she worked her way up. she was an extremely smart woman.