“Law & Order” is revisiting this summer’s tragic wrong-way crash on the Taconic Parkway.
The show, famed for its ripped-from-the-headlines approach, shot several scenes last week on Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard at West 151st Street in Harlem that were eerily reminiscent of July’s deadly head-on crash — which claimed eight lives when Long Island mom Diane Schuler drove her kid-laden minivan the wrong way for nearly two miles on the Taconic.
The “Law & Order” scenes shot Thursday feature a mom driving her blue Chevy Astro minivan — packed with kids — north in the southbound lane of the boulevard, causing a fiery crash that leaves the minivan and another car burned to a crisp.
The July 26 Taconic crash killed Schuler, her daughter, her three nieces, and three people in the SUV that Schuler hit head on.
Only her 5-year-old son, Brian Schuler, survived.
According to a toxicology report, Schuler was drunk and high on marijuana at the time.
The “Law & Order” shoot drew a crowd of onlookers — not all of whom were happy with what they saw.
“I feel it’s way too soon,” said handyman Lawrence Williams, 35. “Those babies just died.”
“If it was my family [being portrayed in the episode], I’d be very angry about this.”
But Harlem resident Juan Asuncion, 40, shruggingly said, “It’s probably way too soon to be doing this, but that’s the business these people are in.”
An NBC spokesman, asked about the filming, said only, ” ‘Law & Order’ is fiction.”
The show’s art does imitate quite a bit of life.
The show recently did an episode involving a fictional reality-TV show called “Larry Plus 10,” Ã la the real “Jon & Kate Plus 8” saga.
A March episode featured a Bernard Madoff-like character who ran a Ponzi scheme that swindled $40 billion from more than 500 clients.
An episode a month later borrowed from a Long Island story about a clash between residents and day laborers.
Last year, an “L&O” piece dealt with the death of a male supermodel who died from a drug overdose. It was apparently based on the OD death of actor Heath Ledger.
In the Taconic takeoff, the original script had the woman driver working for a drug company.
In real life, Schuler worked as a Cablevision executive.