By HOLLY RAMER
CONCORD, N.H. — A 2019 collision that killed seven members of a Marine motorbike membership would’ve occurred even when the truck was in the midst of its lane as a result of the lead biker was “headed in that direction,” a crash reconstruction skilled stated Monday on the ultimate day of testimony within the truck driver’s trial.
Closing arguments are set for Tuesday within the trial of Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 26, who faces negligent murder, manslaughter and reckless conduct expenses in reference to the June 21, 2019, crash in Randolph, New Hampshire.
Prosecutors have argued that Zhukovskyy, who had taken heroin, fentanyl and cocaine that day, repeatedly swerved backwards and forwards earlier than the head-on crash and advised police he brought on it. But a decide dismissed eight expenses associated as to whether he was impaired, and his lawyer blames the lead biker, Albert “Woody” Mazza, saying he misplaced management of his motorbike and collided with the truck whereas driving drunk.
Testifying for the protection, William Howerton of Scientific Boston, Inc., was requested the place the collision between Mazza’s motorbike and Zhukovskyy’s truck occurred.
“The impact occurred on the double yellow line, directly over,” he stated. “The left front wheel of the pickup truck was just a little bit left of center of the double yellow line, still on the yellow line.”
Howerton additionally stated that primarily based on his evaluation, the truck was aligned with the highway whereas the motorbike was angled towards the middle line simply earlier than affect. Asked if the crash would’ve occurred had the truck been in the midst of its lane, he stated, “ If the truck was in the middle of its lane, would the crash still have happened, he said, “Yes. The motorcycle was headed in that direction.”
The motorcyclists who died had been members of the Jarheads Motorcycle Club from New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island and ranged in age from 42 to 62. They had been half of a bigger group that had simply left a motel alongside the freeway and had been headed to an American Legion Post in Gorham for a fundraiser.
Killed had been Mazza, of Lee, New Hampshire; Edward and Jo-Ann Corr, a pair from Lakeville, Massachusetts; Michael Ferazzi, of Contoocook, New Hampshire; Desma Oakes, of Concord, New Hampshire; Daniel Pereira, of Riverside, Rhode Island; and Aaron Perry, of Farmington, New Hampshire.
The trial in Coos County Superior Court in Lancaster began July 26.
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