Driver’s license of New Hampshire trucker acquitted in fatal crash in 2019 will remain suspended, judge rules
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.
Zhukovskyy was found not guilty on all charges against him on Aug. 9, 2022, following a 12-day trial. It was a verdict that shocked not only surviving Jarheads members but even the governor himself.
The verdict was “an absolute tragedy,” said New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu that day, adding that “The Fallen Seven did not receive justice today.”
The crash killed Jo-Ann and Edward Corr, both 58, of Lakeville; Michael Ferazzi, 62, of Contoocook, N.H.; Albert Mazza, 59, of Lee, N.H.; Desma Oakes, 42, of Concord, N.H.; Daniel Pereira, 58, of Riverside, R.I.; and Aaron Perry, 45, of Farmington, N.H.
“It doesn’t make much sense,” Albert Mazza, the namesake of his son who died in the crash and served as leader of the Club, said following the verdict. “There are seven people dead. There are seven families affected. It’s strange that he didn’t get something.”
This is a developing story.