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Another interesting thing found in the police report, on page 10 it gives a witness account stating "I intereviewed ____ who stated that at approximately 1:15 pm he was travelling north on the taconic state parkway, just north of the Sprain Brook Parkway when he was cut off by a red minivan travelling north with a female operator... he later saw a picture of Diane Schuler and believes it was her operating this vehicle."
So 15 minutes before the accident she was driving in the correct direction on the Taconic about a mile south of where the accident occurred, only to exit and re-enter at the Pleasantville Rd exit, where there were numersous witness accounts (at least 4) of people warning her as she drove the wrong way on the exit ramp onto the highway. So, it appears she drove by the site of the accident just minutes before the crash going the right way. Since there is only one exit (Rt 117) between those spots, and there are lots of backroads, lights and turns to get up to the Pleasantville exit, it seems unlkely she got off at Rt 117 and bushwacked up to the Pleasantville Road exit in only a few minutes on a Sunday afternoon, more likely she simply got off at Pleasantville Rd and immediately made a U-turn and got right back on going south.
The police interview with Danny Schuler on July 31 states a few interesting things; he states his wife "smoked marijuana once in a while to relieve the stress of work and the kids"; so with the stress of 5 kids all weekend instead of two, would her stress level be high enough to trigger the response of smoking? He also states his wife "had no medical issues and was in good health." More telling is he says 'he drove to the campground on Thursday 7/27//09 (which we know is a lie now since he addmitted going there on Friday after the police checked his ezpass)." and that 'his wife usually took the same route home to long island, which was route 17 to interstate 87 to interstate 287 to interstate 95 to the Throgs Neck Bridge" So this suggests that they took separate cars to the campsite on a regular basis if she had a 'regular route' and he took his dog in his pickup truck. So it seems like he had the freedom to go anywhere he wanted as long as he got to the camp before she and the kids did. The real question, therefore, is where was he that Thursday night and how often was he using camping as his excuse to be somewhere else?
So 15 minutes before the accident she was driving in the correct direction on the Taconic about a mile south of where the accident occurred, only to exit and re-enter at the Pleasantville Rd exit, where there were numersous witness accounts (at least 4) of people warning her as she drove the wrong way on the exit ramp onto the highway. So, it appears she drove by the site of the accident just minutes before the crash going the right way. Since there is only one exit (Rt 117) between those spots, and there are lots of backroads, lights and turns to get up to the Pleasantville exit, it seems unlkely she got off at Rt 117 and bushwacked up to the Pleasantville Road exit in only a few minutes on a Sunday afternoon, more likely she simply got off at Pleasantville Rd and immediately made a U-turn and got right back on going south.
The police interview with Danny Schuler on July 31 states a few interesting things; he states his wife "smoked marijuana once in a while to relieve the stress of work and the kids"; so with the stress of 5 kids all weekend instead of two, would her stress level be high enough to trigger the response of smoking? He also states his wife "had no medical issues and was in good health." More telling is he says 'he drove to the campground on Thursday 7/27//09 (which we know is a lie now since he addmitted going there on Friday after the police checked his ezpass)." and that 'his wife usually took the same route home to long island, which was route 17 to interstate 87 to interstate 287 to interstate 95 to the Throgs Neck Bridge" So this suggests that they took separate cars to the campsite on a regular basis if she had a 'regular route' and he took his dog in his pickup truck. So it seems like he had the freedom to go anywhere he wanted as long as he got to the camp before she and the kids did. The real question, therefore, is where was he that Thursday night and how often was he using camping as his excuse to be somewhere else?
