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Tilted Cat Head
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maybe she was going to go to sleep while driving?????
TACONIC CRASH MOM, DIANE SCHULER'S FAMILY KNEW SHE SMOKED MARIJUANA - New York Post
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CRASH MA WAS A TOKER
By KIERAN CROWLEY and GINGER ADAMS OTIS
August 14, 2009 --
Her family knew she was a pothead.
Deadly wrong-way driver Diane Schuler relied on marijuana to fall asleep, her family told People magazine in an exclusive interview.
Brother-in-law Jimmy Schuler insists the Long Island mom of two was practically a teetotaler, though he says the family was aware she used pot when she couldn't sleep.
"I made the daiquiris at family parties, and if she tasted alcohol, she'd say, 'Throw it out and try again,' " he said.
He and Schuler family friends continue to deny that Diane, 36, had substance-abuse problems -- despite toxicology reports that show she was smashed on booze and had recently smoked pot when the minivan she was driving crashed head-on into an SUV on the Taconic State Parkway on July 26.
Killed in the collision were Diane, her daughter, Erin, 2, and three nieces, Emma, 8, Alyson, 7 and Kate 5. Three men in the SUV also died.
Roseann Guzzo -- whose father, Michael Bastardi, and brother, Guy Bastardi, died in the SUV -- was shocked to hear of Diane's marijuana habit.
"Oh, my God," she gasped yesterday at her late father's Westchester house where she was packing up his clothes. "I can't believe it."
She dismissed attempts by Diane's husband, Daniel, and his lawyer, Dominic Barbara, to blame Diane's toxicology results on a stroke-like attack, a mystery lump in her leg and other bizarre medical theories.
Toxicology reports show Diane had a blood-alcohol content of 0.19 and 113 nanograms per milliliter of THC, the active ingredient of marijuana, in her system.
"To find that large a quantity in the blood indicates someone very recently smoked or ingested THC -- like 10 minutes before dying," said toxicology expert Alan Donelson.
The effect of that much marijuana coupled with 10 shots of vodka -- the amount toxicologists believe Diane drank -- would be totally debilitating, he said.
"We're talking gross incapacitation," he said.
Gov. Paterson yesterday submitted legislation to increase penalties motorists who drive while intoxicated with children in the car.
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