Police: Wrong-Way Driver in Deadly Crash Was Drunk, High

Last week's story about 36-year-old Diane Schuler, who was driving the wrong way on an upstate New York highway and collided with another car, killing herself and seven others -- including her own child and three nieces -- took a saddening turn Tuesday.

Schuler was high on marijuana and drunk July 26 when she took the wheel of her 2003 Ford Windstar minivan on the northbound Taconic State Parkway slightly north of New York City. An autopsy report released Tuesday found that she had a blood alcohol content of 0.19, twice the legal limit in New York. Schuler died along with her 2-year-old daughter, Erin; nieces Emma Hance, 8, Alyson Hance, 7 and Kate Hance, 5; Guy Bastardi, his father Michael Bastardi and Daniel Longo, all three in the vehicle Schuler's minivan struck headon.

Schuler's 5-year-old son Bryan is the only survivor of the crash; he is recovering at a hospital.

"The report indicates that the driver was operating the vehicle while impaired by marijuana," said Westchester County district attorney Janet DiFiore in a statement released late Tuesday. "My office, along with the New York State Police, will continue to investigate the facts and circumstances that led up to the collision causing the deaths, so that the public and the families of the victims can understand what led to this horrific crash."