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MOUNT PLEASANT, N.Y. — A 5-year-old boy who lost his mother, his sister and three cousins in a fiery wrong-way crash on the Taconic State Parkway in Westchester County, N.Y., Sunday that also killed three others is recovering in critical condition Monday, police said.
Diane Schuler, 36, of West Babylon was driving two of her own children and three of her nieces home in a minivan about 1:30 p.m. Sunday when she entered the northbound Taconic going the wrong way, causing what amounts to the worst crash in Westchester County in 75 years.
Police will release more details at an 11 a.m. news conference Monday.
The people killed in the other car from Yonkers, N.Y., were Guy Bastardi, 49, and his 81-year-old father, Michael Bastardi, and a friend Daniel Longo, police said.
The accident occurred near Mount Pleasant, N.Y., when Schuler's minivan crashed head-on into an SUV carrying the three people from Yonkers.
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The minivan then careened into a third vehicle, causing injuries to two people that were not life-threatening.
The impact of the crash and the fire that engulfed the minivan killed the mother, and four children under 10 years old. But fast-acting firefighters rescued the 5-year-old boy, Brian Schuler, from the burning car.
"I've been with the state police for 24 years and I've never investigated anything so horrific," state police investigator Joseph Becerra said.
It was also the second wrong-way accident on the Taconic Sunday. A two-car crash in Kent, N.Y., earlier in the day left five people hospitalized.
By Rob Ryser, The Journal News
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-07-26-NYC-crash_N.htm?csp=34
Diane Schuler, 36, of West Babylon was driving two of her own children and three of her nieces home in a minivan about 1:30 p.m. Sunday when she entered the northbound Taconic going the wrong way, causing what amounts to the worst crash in Westchester County in 75 years.
Police will release more details at an 11 a.m. news conference Monday.
The people killed in the other car from Yonkers, N.Y., were Guy Bastardi, 49, and his 81-year-old father, Michael Bastardi, and a friend Daniel Longo, police said.
The accident occurred near Mount Pleasant, N.Y., when Schuler's minivan crashed head-on into an SUV carrying the three people from Yonkers.
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The minivan then careened into a third vehicle, causing injuries to two people that were not life-threatening.
The impact of the crash and the fire that engulfed the minivan killed the mother, and four children under 10 years old. But fast-acting firefighters rescued the 5-year-old boy, Brian Schuler, from the burning car.
"I've been with the state police for 24 years and I've never investigated anything so horrific," state police investigator Joseph Becerra said.
It was also the second wrong-way accident on the Taconic Sunday. A two-car crash in Kent, N.Y., earlier in the day left five people hospitalized.
By Rob Ryser, The Journal News
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-07-26-NYC-crash_N.htm?csp=34
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