Friday, October 21, 2011

STATE SUED FOR FAILURE TO WARN WOMAN HIGH ON BOOZE AND POT THAT SHE WAS GOING THE WRONG WAY

Chuck Shepherd’s News of the Weird
October 19, 2011

2009 Diane Schuler, with a 0.19 blood-alcohol reading (and marijuana in her system), drove the wrong way for two miles on a New York freeway, finally crashing into another car, killing three people and herself. In July 2011, her widower, Dave Schuler, filed a lawsuit against the state, alleging that the collision was the state's fault for not posting signs warning motorists like Diane Schuler that they were going the wrong way. (Dave Schuler's own private investigator told The Daily Cortlandt newspaper that he tried to discourage Schuler from filing the lawsuit, to no avail.) [The Daily Cortlandt (Cortlandt, N.Y.), 7-26-2011]

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