CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire security officers on Thursday upheld the license suspension of a industrial truck driver who was acquitted within the 2019 deaths of seven motorcyclists however mentioned one other listening to will probably be held to find out how lengthy the suspension will final.
A jury in 2022 discovered Volodymyr Zhukovskyy not responsible of a number of manslaughter and negligent murder counts stemming from the June 21, 2019, collision in Randolph that killed seven members of the Jarheads Motorbike Membership, a company of Marine Corps veterans and their spouses in New England.
Zhukovskyy’s Massachusetts license was robotically suspended in New Hampshire after his arrest following the crash, however he sought to get it reinstated at a listening to earlier this month.
In an order Thursday, an administrative regulation decide for the Division of Security mentioned Zhukovskyy is topic to a state regulation that permits his license to be suspended for as much as seven years and {that a} dispositional listening to will probably be scheduled later.
“The proof clearly helps a discovering that the respondent operated his truck and trailer in a negligent matter which was illegal and prompted or materially contributed to the accident,” wrote Ryan McFarland.
At his trial, prosecutors argued that Zhukovskyy — who had taken heroin, fentanyl and cocaine the day of the crash — repeatedly swerved backwards and forwards earlier than the collision and instructed police he prompted it. However a decide dismissed eight impairment expenses and his attorneys mentioned the lead biker was drunk and never wanting the place he was going when he misplaced management of his motorbike and slid in entrance of Zhukovskyy’s truck, which was pulling an empty flatbed trailer.
Zhukovskyy’s trial attorneys additionally mentioned there was no proof he was impaired on the time of the crash and that police didn’t make any observations within the hours afterward suggesting he was.
On the time, Zhukovskyy’s license ought to have been revoked as a result of he had been arrested in Connecticut on a drunken driving cost in Could 2019. Connecticut officers alerted the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Automobiles, however Zhukovskyy’s license wasn’t suspended resulting from a backlog of out-of-state notifications about driving offenses. The Connecticut case is pending.
Zhukovskyy, who got here to the U.S. as a baby from Ukraine and had everlasting residency standing, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after the 2022 verdict. A decide ordered his deportation final yr, however the U.S. has paused repatriation flights to Ukraine as a result of battle with Russia and licensed Momentary Protected Standing for certified Ukrainians.
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