Randolph, NH, Big Truck Crash...Bikers killed. (2019)

[ApS]

Originally Posted by Biggd

I can't believe this thread is still drawing attention?

It isn't every day a truck driver gets up at 8:00-AM, takes cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, and drives with a suspended CDL, takes an afternoon spin on a NH back road, and neglectfully kills seven motorcyclists.

Speaking remotely from a Pennsylvania prison, Zhukovskyy says he's been "clean" for five years.

Fortunately, a NH hearing administrative judge has much more discretion than a judge in NH's Criminal Courts. (Proof of guilt has a much lower threshold here).

FLL's guess of only two years before granting a new-to-Zhukovskyy NH drivers license is unlikely.

Why doesn't Zhukovskyy apply for a drivers license from Connecticut, Pennsylvania or his home state of Massachusetts?



BTW:
Zhukovskyy's lawyer asked for "A Moment of Silence" in memory of the fallen motorcyclists, whereupon the crash survivors walked out of the hearing.

Did the lawyer not know in advance the results of his action? Lawyers are supposed to!

[fatlazyless]

Riding/driving a motorcycle is supposedly 28-times ..... www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_safety ..... more deadly than driving a car, and Zhukovskyy's vehicle was a large pick-up truck towing a large trailer capable to hold three cars which requires him to have a commercial driver's license.

It's not a perfect world out there driving New Hampshire ..... collisions and accidents happen due to speeding, the weather, the road conditions, texting, drinking, doing drugs, being tired and sleepy and simply not paying enough attention to DRIVING.

There is no video of this collision between the pick-up truck and the five motorcycles. All that separates the two while driving US Route 2 in Randolph NH on June 21, 2019 in opposite directions was the center white line that's about six inches wide which is not very much.

Stuff happens ...... which is the safer vehicle for their driver and occupants, a large pick-up truck or a large motorcycle for surviving a head-on collision?

[TiltonBB]

He did have a Massachusetts CDL. You can only hold a license in one state. New Hampshire can suspend his "Right to operate" in the state but action on his license is up to Massachusetts.

Many states will take action on a license when an incident occurs in another state. Because of many prior charges in other states license suspension or revocation should have happened in Massachusetts prior to the Randolph, NH accident. Given his history he may have continued to drive regardless of any suspension.

The head of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles, Erin Deveny, resigned after learning Zhukovskyy's license should have been suspended following the OUI charge in Connecticut.

[ApS]

Originally Posted by TiltonBB

He did have a Massachusetts CDL. You can only hold a license in one state. New Hampshire can suspend his "Right to operate" in the state but action on his license is up to Massachusetts.

Many states will take action on a license when an incident occurs in another state. Because of many prior charges in other states license suspension or revocation should have happened in Massachusetts prior to the Randolph, NH accident. Given his history he may have continued to drive regardless of any suspension.

The head of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles, Erin Deveny, resigned after learning Zhukovskyy's license should have been suspended following the OUI charge in Connecticut.

Zhukovskyy's OUI could be found among five years of boxes stored by Massachusetts RMV containing OUIs from other states of which Massachusetts RMV took no action.

(Some 53 bins, containing tens of thousands of notifications, have been discovered, and state officials were continuing to search through them).
--New York Times

[TiltonBB]

From the Boston Herald:

The driving privileges of a man acquitted of barreling through a line of bikers in a multiple-fatal crash in New Hampshire in 2019 will be suspended for the full seven years allowed by law, a judge ruled.

Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 28, was found not gulty in 2022 of all charges alleging that his reckless behavior on June 21, 2019, in Randolph, N.H., led to the deaths of seven members of the Jarheads Motorcycle Club, which is made up of Marine Corps veterans and their spouses.

The effective date of his seven-year driving suspension is June 24, 2019. While his license has been suspended since that time, the ruling issued today by Administrative Law Judge Ryan N. McFarland of the New Hampshire Bureau of Hearings will keep Zhukovskyy off the road for nearly two more years.

McFarland’s order details the known facts and circumstances surrounding the crash and then both the mitigating and aggravating factors of those facts.

McFarland notes aggravating factors: That there were “warning signs for (Zhukovskyy) to recognize that his driving behavior was not reasonable or safe”; that Zhukovskyy “consumed a large amount of drugs that morning” and used heroin and cocaine two to three times daily at the time; that Zhukovskyy should know to exercise more care than he did when opertaing a 62-foot long vehicle; and that the crash was “not an isolated incident” as Zhukovskyy has admitted to previously flipping a trick in Texas and was using drugs at that time, too.

WMUR Story:
https://www.wmur.com/article/volodym...ision/61560184

[ishoot308]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trucking-...202359091.html

Dan

[ApS]

While I think my analysis of the crash is correct (at the site where Zhukovskyy admitted guilt), I'm thinking of visiting the site and taking pictures.

Cancel the above. The season demands I start preparing this cottage for winter. It's time to follow the hummingbirds south.

Maybe next summer?
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[TiltonBB]

The owner of the trucking company that was involved in the crash was sentenced to two months in prison.

From the Laconia Sun:

https://www.laconiadailysun.com/news...a32fa46dc.html

[fatlazyless]

Dec 10, WMUR ..... http://www.wmur.com/article/volodymy...cense/63146048 .....

"Hearing held regarding Volodymyr Zhukovskyy's petition to reinstate his NH driver's license"

"No decision from the judge was made Tuesday."

My guess is his NH driver's license will continue to be denied for another two years until the seven year limit has run out.

[TiltonBB]

HARTFORD, Conn. — A commercial truck driver who was acquitted in the 2019 deaths of seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire pleaded guilty and was sentenced Monday April 14 for driving under the influence in Connecticut a month before the deadly crash — an offense that should have resulted in his license being revoked.

Volodymyr Zhukovskyy appeared in Hartford Superior Court and entered an Alford plea, which means he did not admit guilt but acknowledged the state had enough evidence to win a conviction at trial. The plea results in a conviction, and he was sentenced to 18 months of probation.

“He clearly understands the significance of this,” Zhukovskyy’s lawyer, John O’Brien, said during the brief court proceeding.

[Tofu]

Originally Posted by TiltonBB

HARTFORD, Conn. — A commercial truck driver who was acquitted in the 2019 deaths of seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire pleaded guilty and was sentenced Monday April 14 for driving under the influence in Connecticut a month before the deadly crash — an offense that should have resulted in his license being revoked.

Volodymyr Zhukovskyy appeared in Hartford Superior Court and entered an Alford plea, which means he did not admit guilt but acknowledged the state had enough evidence to win a conviction at trial. The plea results in a conviction, and he was sentenced to 18 months of probation.

“He clearly understands the significance of this,” Zhukovskyy’s lawyer, John O’Brien, said during the brief court proceeding.

Conn.... Need not say another word. All you have to say is " CONN "...

[KPW]

Originally Posted by ApS

It isn't every day a truck driver gets up at 8:00-AM, takes cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, and drives with a suspended CDL, takes an afternoon spin on a NH back road, and neglectfully kills seven motorcyclists.

Speaking remotely from a Pennsylvania prison, Zhukovskyy says he's been "clean" for five years.

Fortunately, a NH hearing administrative judge has much more discretion than a judge in NH's Criminal Courts. (Proof of guilt has a much lower threshold here).

FLL's guess of only two years before granting a new-to-Zhukovskyy NH drivers license is unlikely.

Why doesn't Zhukovskyy apply for a drivers license from Connecticut, Pennsylvania or his home state of Massachusetts?



BTW:
Zhukovskyy's lawyer asked for "A Moment of Silence" in memory of the fallen motorcyclists, whereupon the crash survivors walked out of the hearing.

Did the lawyer not know in advance the results of his action? Lawyers are supposed to!

He had no traceable amounts of anything in his system. It was proven that the lead biker was way over the BUI limit. He drifted over the line and hit the truck. End of story.