CONCORD, N.H.—A prosecutor said Tuesday that a commercial truck driver charged in the deaths in 2019 of seven members of a Marine motorcycle club told police he caused the crash and wasn’t looking, while the driver’s lawyer said it was the fault of the lead biker, who looked over his shoulder at his fellow riders moments before the collision.
The truck driver, Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 26, who had taken heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine on June 21, 2019, “weaved back and forth repeatedly” before the head-on crash, prosecutor John McCormick said in his opening statement in Zhukovskyy’s trial in state superior court in Lancaster.
