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Owners of Truck Company Connected to Fatal NH Crash Indicted on Federal Charges
The owners of a Massachusetts trucking company tied to a crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire in 2019 have been charged for falsifying records and lying to authorities. Dunyadar Gasanov, 36, and Dartanayan Gasanov, 35 — both of West Springfield — are charged with falsifying driving logs in order evade federal safety regulations between May and June of…
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NTSB Releases Final Report on NH Crash That Killed 7 Bikers
The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday released its final report into a pickup truck driver’s crash into an oncoming group of motorcyclists in New Hampshire last year, leading to the death of seven bikers. The board found that the fiery crash, on a rural, two-lane highway in Randolph, was probably caused by the truck crossing the road’s centerline...
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Judge Considers Suppressing Statements in NH Biker Crash Case
The pickup driver whose collision with a group of bikers last year left seven motorcyclists dead made some statements to police that should not be part of his upcoming trial, his lawyers told a judge in New Hampshire on Tuesday. Attorneys for Volodymyr Zhukovskyy said their client indicated during the police interview last June that he was not able to…
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‘Fallen Seven' Who Died in Tragic NH Crash Remembered, 1 Year On
Sunday marked one year since seven people died in a collision with a pickup truck in New Hampshire. The accident involved several motorcyclists and a truck, in what onlookers described as a “devastating scene.” The motorcyclists who died were members of the Jarheads Motorcycle Club, a New England group that includes Marines and their spouses. The victims were from New…
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Lawyers List Drugs in Driver's System in Deadly NH Motorcycle Crash
A truck driver charged in a crash that killed seven motorcyclists had fentanyl, morphine and a chemical found in cocaine in his system that day, and told authorities he often would take drugs before starting work, prosecutors said in a document made public Tuesday. The morning of the June 21, 2019, crash, Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, of West Springfield, Massachusetts, consumed two…
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Defense Lawyer in Death of 7 Motorcyclists Says Biker Was at Fault
One of the motorcyclists in a crash that killed him and six fellow bikers on a north woods highway was drunk and actually was the one who hit a pickup and caused the accident, the lawyer for the truck driver charged with homicide said in a document made public Tuesday.
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Deadly NH Motorcycle Crash: Police Detail Investigation Into Collision That Killed 7
The driver behind the wheel in a crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire in June told police hours afterward that he was reaching down to retrieve something when he hit the oncoming vehicles, according to a newly unsealed document. The New Hampshire affidavit unsealed Tuesday details the police investigation into the crash, which resulted in Volodymyr Zhukovskyy’s arrest...
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Injured Motorcycle Rider Gets Escorts as He Leaves Hospital
The last of three motorcycle riders hospitalized following a crash that killed seven people has left a hospital _ with an escort of his fellow riders. Officials say 45-year-old Josh Morin, of Dalton, Massachusetts, was flown to Maine Medical Center in Portland on the night of the June 21 crash in Randolph, New Hampshire. The driver of a pickup truck...
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Officials Issue Report on NH Crash That Killed 7 Motorcyclists
More than a month after a crash that in New Hampshire that killed seven motorcyclists, federal safety officials have issued a report that provides no fresh clues as to the cause of the tragedy. In its preliminary report Wednesday, the National Transportation Safety Board summarized the details behind the June 21 crash in which a pickup truck driven by 23-year-old...
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Patriots' Kraft Pledges $100K for Families of Bikers Killed in NH Crash
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has pledged to donate $100,000 to help the families of seven motorcyclists killed in a collision with a truck last month in New Hampshire. Kraft joined thousands of bikers from across the country outside of Gillette Stadium on Saturday for a memorial service organized by the Jarheads Motorcycle Club, to which the victims of...
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Ride for the Fallen 7: Motorcyclists to Gather in Massive Memorial for Group Killed in NH Crash
A motorcycle ride is being planned to commemorate the lives of the seven bikers killed last month in a collision with a pickup truck. The memorial is being called the Ride for the Fallen 7, and its organizers are set to appear with state and local safety officials at 1 p.m. Friday to announce its final route.
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Major Ride Planned to Remember 7 Killed in NH Crash
The Ride for the Fallen 7 is expected to be the largest organized motorcycle ride in the history of the state — and it’s organizers said they’d only expected 25-50 people to show up.
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Review Finds Major Backlog at RMV
A fatal crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire led the Massachusetts RMV to open a review of its procedures.