ACQUIT Ukrainian national high on fentanyl, cocaine and heroin of killing 7

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Don’t think he’s hitting the streets any time soon, he’s still on the list to be deported.

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"high on fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin."

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New Hampshire

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Let this serve as a lesson — never jump on a motorcycle with a .135 and swerve into a truck in the oncoming lane

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Truck driver admitted to swerving earlier before the collision but was in his lane when the first motorcycle lost control and hit his front left wheel and caused a domino effect behind him

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Prosecutors argued that Zhukovskyy - who had taken heroin, fentanyl and cocaine earlier on the day of the crash - repeatedly swerved back and forth before the collision and told police he caused it.

Federal crash investigators found that the truck driver was impaired by drugs and had swerved into the oncoming motorcycle convoy.

But Judge Peter H. Bornstein dismissed eight charges related to whether he was impaired.

Witnesses were consistent, he argued, in describing the truck as weaving back and forth before the crash. That behavior continued 'until he killed people,' Chase said.

'That's what stopped him. It´s not that he made some responsible decision to start paying attention or do the right thing,' he said. 'The only thing that stopped him was an embankment after he tore through a group of motorcycles.'

Chase called the attempt to blame Mazza a 'fanciful story' and 'frivolous distraction,' while reminding jurors that Zhukovskyy, who didn't testify at trial, told investigators 'Obviously, I caused the crash.'

An National Transportation Safety Bureau investigation found that Zhukovskyy was impaired by drugs and that his 2016 Dodge 2500 pickup truck and trailer crossed the double yellow lines in the center of the road into the oncoming bikers.

The investigation also found that he should never have been driving.

Records show that Zhukovskyy was also stopped on suspicion of driving drunk just in May 2019, in a Walmart parking lot in East Windsor, Connecticut after failing a sobriety test.

He was also arrested on a drunken driving charge in 2013 in Westfield, Massachusetts, state records show.

He was placed on probation for one year and had his license suspended for 210 days, The Westfield News reported.

That prior record should have prevented Zhukovskyy from holding a commercial driver's license, however he did have a Massachusetts commercial license.

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But Judge Peter H. Bornstein dismissed eight charges related to whether he was impaired.

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