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Lawyer: Victim was briefly alive after Taconic crash

Published: November 24, 2009 3:24 PM
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Emergency workers at the scene of the fatal

Photo credit: File, 2009 / The Journal News | Emergency workers at the scene of the fatal accident on Sunday on the Taconic State Parkway in Westchester. (July 26, 2009)

A man who died in the wrong-way crash that killed eight people on a New York highway survived the impact and suffered at least briefly from pain and from the knowledge he was about to die, a lawyer claims.

Brian Sichol, who represents the family of father-and-son victims Michael and Guy Bastardi, made the assertion as he prepared a lawsuit against the estate of Diane Schuler, the Long Island...

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