Volodymyr Zhukovskyy

The New Hampshire Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an appeal for a bail hearing for a truck driver who’s been in jail since he was charged with causing the deaths of seven motorcyclists in 2019. Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 25, of West Springfield, Massachusetts, is scheduled to face trial on Nov. 29 on multiple counts of negligent homicide, manslaughter, driving under the influence…

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…

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...

A pickup driver’s drug use was the reason he crashed last year into an oncoming group of motorcyclists in New Hampshire, leading to the death of seven bikers, the National Transportation Safety Board found Tuesday. The board unanimously approved a report that determined that Volodymyr Zhukovskyy’s impairment from the drugs was the “probable cause” for him crossing the center...

The pickup truck driver charged with causing the deaths of seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire last year told authorities he had drug problems, regularly used heroin and cocaine but believed he was not impaired at the time of the crash. The admission by Volodymyr Zhukovskyy was included in a trove of documents released Wednesday by federal investigators related to the…

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…

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…

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.

Prosecutors in the case of a pickup truck driver facing negligent homicide charges for allegedly killing seven motorcyclists in a collision want an outside consultant to conduct tests on the vehicle without members of the man’s defense team present, according to paperwork filed in a New Hampshire court. The state has the Dodge Ram truck and an attached trailer...

Jury selection is scheduled by November in the pending trial of a pickup truck driver accused of causing a collision that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire, a judge ordered Tuesday. Lawyers reached an agreement on deadlines for the scheduling of motions, trial witness lists, and the possibility of a plea in the case of Volodymyr Zhukovskyy. He was indicted…

An independent audit says the state’s motor vehicle department has had a “longstanding policy” of not prioritizing the processing of out-of-state notifications about driving offenses. The Boston Globe reports the audit, released Friday, found the Registry of Motor Vehicles faces significant backlogs in other areas too, including adding criminal information to drivers’ records. Acting Registrar Jamey Tesler says the agency’s...

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...

Nearly 4,000 New Hampshire drivers will have their licenses suspended after a review of the Division of Motor Vehicles which was sparked by a deadly motorcycle crash in June.

New Hampshire’s Division of Motor Vehicles plans to suspend the licenses of nearly 4,000 drivers as part of a review following a collision that killed seven motorcyclists in the state. Gov. Chris Sununu says the review released Wednesday led authorities to eliminate a backlog of notifications that dated back to July 2016. Authorities blamed the backlog on the lack of automation.

A worker at the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles accessed the driving record of the West Springfield man who allegedly caused a deadly crash in New Hampshire in the weeks prior but quickly closed the file, according to a newly released audit report. After being notified May 29 by the Department of Motor Vehicles in Connecticut about Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, the...

A second lawsuit has been filed following a collision that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire. Attorney Chuck Douglas said he filed the suit in Strafford County Superior Court against the trucking company that hired the driver charged in the crash.

Massachusetts lawmakers are examining the troubles at the state motor vehicle department exposed by a New Hampshire crash that killed seven motorcyclists. The Legislature’s Committee on Transportation opened an oversight hearing Monday at the Statehouse on what it calls “the management, notice and record-keeping issues” at the Registry of Motor Vehicles.

Massachusetts lawmakers are hoping to learn more about problems at the Registry of Motor Vehicles exposed in the wake of a crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire.

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is demanding answers from the state’s Registry of Motor Vehicles, which ignored Connecticut’s warnings about the record of the truck driver allegedly at fault in the crash that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire this June. Tranportation department officials met with their counterparts at the RMV Wednesday to discuss improving state-to-state records amid several...

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...