She has gone from bearing an unspeakable burden to bearing a brand-new life.
Jackie Hance — the Long Island mom whose three young daughters were killed in a horrific, wrong-way crash on the Taconic Parkway two years ago — is now just weeks from having another baby.
She was spotted outside her Long Island home last week, noticeably pregnant as she smiled and chatted with a neighbor.
Hance declined to comment. Neighbors said they don’t know if the baby is a girl or boy. But “we’re all there for Jackie right now,” one pal said.
“1t’s such a special time. We just want this to turn out OK. She’s been through so much. The whole family has. They deserve some joy.”
Hance’s daughters — Emma, 8, Alyson, 7, and Katie, 5 — were returning from an upstate camping trip with their aunt, Diane Schuler, and Schuler’s two young children when a drunk Schuler sped the wrong way for two miles along the Taconic Parkway before colliding with an SUV.