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  1. Hello - I remember well the Taconic accident and the aftermath, I live in the general area and have spent countless hours on I-87, the old Tappan Zee and Rt 17, but I didn’t see the documentary until this week, thinking it would answer the mystery of why it happened. Of course, no answers. Thanks to all the posters for the discussion here especially funky-rat for your personal insights. I’m also married to someone in AA but am not an addict myself and really understood your POV. I agree with the point that Diane’s phone calls near the Tappan Zee, with Warren and Jackie and the missed numbers, seem to be the fatal trigger for Diane. Until those calls she was driving home and still following the plan for the day, even if she was drinking or using. After those calls, she leaves her phone and she changes her route to the opposite direction, and then the accident happens within 30 minutes. Warren was so disturbed by the calls, he immediately drove off to find Diane, instructing Jackie to call 911 according I think to the New York magazine article. So if that’s true the family wasn’t trying to hide Diane’s troubles or her drinking/using from the police. I haven’t seen this discussed but weren’t there some weird undercurrents with Diane’s relationship with the Hances? Notice how in the documentary Jay says of Jackie Hance: she was a stay at home mom, her daughters were her JOB. Really emphasizing that. Meanwhile we know Diane was the breadwinner and had to work long hours away from her kids. Even if Diane and Jackie were friends, the dynamic in the families seemed to accept Jackie as the most devoted mom. And - looking at Diane’s husband and Schuler in-laws in the documentary, no offense to Jay who seems a nice person, the Schulers are not the most classy or sophisticated family. I sense the Hances were above them a bit, and Diane knew she had married down and into an unhappy marriage, vs Warren and Jackie who by all accounts are a loving even dare we say perfect couple. Yet Diane is the one who has this compulsive need to be perfect. It’s not an appealing aspect of Diane that she could have been somewhat jealous of them vs happy for their nice life, but it fits her pattern and life story where she desperately wanted her own perfect family to make up for her mom leaving. Did this dynamic play into the accident? Specifically Jackie wanting the girls home at a certain time for play practice and Diane running late, for McDonalds and what she maybe thought at the time was minor self-medicating. Even though Jackie said their discussion of the play practice on the phone that morning was friendly, Diane was a compulsively prompt person, never late. And now here she’s perhaps under duress thinking she will be late, and maybe now unintentionally drunk and stoned by overmedicating - she’s going to be finally, dramatically exposed as the bad addicted working mom who can’t get the Hance girls home on time. Was that enough for her to completely panic and decide to annihilate rather than be exposed as less perfect than the Hances - which would understandably have been an ongoing theme and fear in her life? (and I have another guess theory that Diane was indeed having an affair and had an obsessive love, and a rejection in that relationship set her off into insane irrational violence just like the pattern in other famous cases like Jodi Arias, astronaut Lisa, Susan Smith, Sylvia Plath etc etc...) One other thought - what about the public silence from her two other brothers? It’s troubling but probably understandable given the antics from Danny. Still the family says that Diane did everything for her brothers growing up. Are there any statements from her other brothers on the record about Diane?
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