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yet another wrong way driver.
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Update: Wrong-way driver was elderly woman | lohud.com | The Journal News
Update: Wrong-way driver was elderly woman
By Christine Pizzuti • cpizzuti@lohud.com • August 9, 2009
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TARRYTOWN — A wrong-way driver who was briefly pursued by police on the Tappan Zee Bridge this morning was an elderly woman who accidentally entered the off-ramp from the highway.
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State police in Tarrytown said the 76-year-old Irvington woman entered the highway from the Exit 9 off-ramp, causing her to travel north in the southbound lanes of the bridge.
Police said the woman had missed her turn before entering Interstate 87. She went through the tolls heading in the wrong direction at about 9 a.m., which is when other motorists started calling police.
The tolls have no bars — just lights.
The woman had made it about two miles and into the Rockland County side of the bridge by the time she was stopped by police. She told police she was aware she had been driving the wrong way, but kept going because she thought there would be a place to make a U-turn.
The woman, who police might identify later today in a press release, received tickets for improperly entering a highway, driving in the wrong direction and reckless driving.
Police expect to order her to take a driving improvement course with the state Department of Motor Vehicles.
Police said the woman did not appear to be on any medication that would have altered her perception.
On Sunday, July 26, Long Island resident Diane Schuler left her cell phone near the bridge before driving a van carrying her three nieces and own two children the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway.
Schuler crashed head-on into an SUV carrying three men from Yonkers, all of whom died. Everyone in the van, except Schuler's 5-year-old son, died as well.
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