Settlements reached in deadly Taconic wrong-way crash lawsuits

WHITE PLAINS (WABC) -- Settlements have been reached in four lawsuits stemming from the deadly wrong-way crash on the Taconic Parkway.

The terms of the deals are confidential.

Investigators say Diane Schuler was drunk and high when she drove a minivan in the wrong direction on the highway and crashed into an SUV in July of 2009.

Schuler, her daughter, her three nieces and three men in the SUV died in the crash.

A relative of the men in the SUV says the lawsuits, which were brought against Schuler's estate and against her brother, who owned the minivan, did not produce any new information in the crash.

Schuler's husband said after the crash that the parkway's warning signs were insufficient and that the "appropriate lanes of travel" weren't properly marked. He insisted before her autopsy that she must have been suffering from a medical condition that would explain her actions.