The truck driver accused of killing seven motorcyclists in a collision in New Hampshire while high on drugs is facing a second wrongful death lawsuit in Plymouth Superior Court filed on behalf of two of the victims.
The new suit against Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, who allegedly swerved his pickup truck and flatbed trailer into a pack of Jarheads Motorcycle Club riders in June on Route 2 in Randolph is the latest fallout from the fatal crash that also sparked a high-profile shakeup at the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles.
Alycia Maregni, representing the estate of two Lakeville, Mass., victims, Jo-Ann Corr and Edward Corr, is asking for a jury trial against Zhukovskyy, Westfield Transport and the company’s owner who employed Zhukovskyy, Gasanov Dartanyan.
The defendants filed a response to the suit in October and an attorney for Zhukovskyy said Tuesday there were no updates in the case.
Zhukovskyy has pleaded not guilty to 23 criminal charges including negligent homicide-driving under the influence for the June crash and has no clear path to trial as his public defender objected to a proposed schedule last month in Coos County Court in Lancaster.
His criminal public defender, Jay Duguay, and the Coos County attorney did not respond to requests for comment.
Maregni’s wrongful death suit moves as Westfield Transport has asked to toss a separate case in New Hampshire, where the wife of the Jarheads president, Albert “Woody” Mazza Jr., who was killed in the crash, is suing the company for emotional distress and negligent hiring of Zhukovskyy.
Mary Lou Welch argues Zhukovskyy shouldn’t have been hired by the now-disbanded trucking company because the managers should have known of Zhukovskyy’s May DWI arrest in Connecticut.
At the time of the New Hampshire collision, Zhukovskyy had a valid Massachusetts commercial driver’s license despite the recent Connecticut arrest and a lengthy record. That news sparked the resignation of the registrar and a subsequent multi-million dollar investigation.
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