it was soon after that when diane turned on to the wrong side of the taconic parkway, spooking othervers. >> state police, 911. >> yeah, you have a guy driving south on northbound taconic parkway. >> reporter: they said that her minivan was moving at 85 miles an hour for two miles in to oncoming traffic, just missing other vehicles. >> he's going like a bat out of hell. >> before colliding with the suv. in the wreckage of the minivan, police find broken bottle of vodka. >> i couldn't believe it. my heart stopped again. and i was dumfounded. >> reporter: as all of these details begin to emerge, jackie's grief turned darker. >> i just was angry. i wish that it was just a regular car accident. it was killing me, the anger. i didn't know how to deal with it. >> reporter: not only anger at the accident, anger at herself. >> i'm their mom and supposed to protect them. and i didn't. it's just hard to not blame yourself. >> reporter: you expected diane to protect your kids? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: and now you are blaming yourself. >> i'm not blaming myself for the accident. i'm blaming mysel

i also saw two suvs northbound on the taconic state parkway.ive damage to them. >> some of the people in the cars got involved and actively tried to help. some were on the phones with 911, and some were just screaming. the scene was very chaotic. >> i proceeded to look for any other signs of life from the others, the victims, and i immediately noticed a little y boy. he was hurt, hurt pretty badly. he was combative, he was crying, which is a good sign. that's why i immediately put him in the first ambulance. >> i didn't even know he was there. but he was underneath everybody. thank god he was underneath. then i went to the top of the hill. i lost it. i started crying. i tried to go help the other fellows that were in the car crash. and they were dead. i felt all their pulses. they were dead. one fellow was hanging out of the car. >> there were some people that did attempt to take pictures of the victims, which we wouldn't allow. we put sheets up to preserve their dignity. it was the only thing we could have done at that point. there was no one

. >> it was a horrific scene on a taconic parkway near route 117 this afternoon.s burned out shell was all that remained of a minivan after the head-on crash which left eight people dead. >> diane schuler, her daughter and three nieces. three westchester men in the suv were killed. >> evidence leads us to believe that a vehicle was traveling the wrong way southbound in the northbound lanes of traffic. >> several people were ejected. most of them children. and we prioritized and we were able to save one young child's life. >> more than one family was destroyed tonight after a horrible crash on a taconic parkway. the loan survivi loan lone surv 5-year-old boy clinging to life at the westchester center. >> i didn't know what happened. i went to the hospital and found out there was a car accident. >> and he got the phone call and he got all upset on the phone and he handed me the phone. and at that point, it was, brian died, and everybody else was alive. >> then i went to papa's house and i told them that brian was dead. and then i got the phone call that it wasn't. t