DUI driver's family wants exhumation

NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- The husband of a woman accused of killing eight people while driving drunk in New York wants to exhume her body to prove she wasn't drinking, an attorney says.

Daniel Schuler said he believes his wife, Diane Schuler, 36, may have been suffering from stroke-like symptoms when she triggered an accident in July by driving the wrong way on New York's Taconic Parkway and the resulting fire may have turned her blood sugar into alcohol, attorney Dominic Barbera told CNN Tuesday.

Diane Schuler's body was found by the Westchester County medical examiner to have had a blood alcohol content of 0.19 percent, more than twice the legal limit, and traces of marijuana after she drove her minivan the wrong way and collided head-on with a sport-utility vehicle in a crash that killed Schuler, four children in her van and three adults in the SUV.

"I read from the medical autopsy report that there was charring of the body because there was a fire," Barbera told CNN. "And I found -- my doctors found numerous cases where you can actually have sugar in the blood turn into alcohol."

Westchester County officials said they stand by the results of their report.