jimnyc
06-27-2019, 01:46 PM
This was almost a week ago. What a tragedy! So many at once. :(
It's hard enough for bike riders out there and they don't need help from idiots crossing and going head on with them And I would imagine that this allegation of driving on the wrong side is likely true due to the amount of bikers hit.
Here's a story from last week, then an update from today.
Appears it's another Marine that started a gofundme for all of the families and already got up to $500,000 out of an asked for $700,000
Also some photos at the bottom, and I kept them "clean" but they're down there if anyone wants to avoid them.
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Motorcycle community mourns 7 killed in 'devastating' New Hampshire biker crash
The tight-knit motorcycle community was reeling Sunday after a horrific collision left seven people dead and three injured in a remote area of northern New Hampshire.
The group of 10 motorcycles collided with a pickup towing a flatbed trailer on Route 2 around 6:30 p.m. Friday in the small town of Randolph. The pickup caught fire, and witnesses described the scene as "devastating."
Dawn Brindley, a woman riding with the group, survived the crash after getting off her bike and rolling away, New Hampshire TV station WMUR reported.
"It was just all fire," Brindley told WMUR. "I just looked around. Somebody helped me up. I was just hysterical."
Two of the three people injured and taken to hospitals were released Saturday.
Authorities searched for clues to the accident Sunday, and the New Hampshire Attorney General's office released the names of the victims.
NH AG NEWS RELEASE: Names Released in the Fatal Accident in Randolph, New Hampshire pic.twitter.com/44ulgfMs8M
— NH DOJ (@NH_DOJ) June 23, 2019
The crash involved members of Marine Jarheads MC, a motorcycle club in New England that includes Marines and their spouses.
Members of the motorcycle community have already been offering to help victims' families, said Cat Wilson, who organizes a motorcycle charity event in Massachusetts and is a friend of some of the victims.
"When something like this happens, we all feel it,” Wilson said. “There is no tighter community than our biker community.”
Investigators identified the pickup driver as Volodoymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, an employee of Westfield Transport, a company in Springfield, Massachusetts. Zhukovskyy survived the accident, did not need to be hospitalized and has not been charged, authorities said.
Rest - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/23/motorcycle-crash-community-mourns-7-killed/1540672001/
Driver in horrific motorcycle crash pleads not guilty as details emerge
A pickup driver accused of slamming into a group of motorcycles waived arraignment and entered a not guilty plea Tuesday in New Hampshire on seven counts of negligent homicide as chilling details emerged from last week's crash and the man blamed for the carnage.
Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, was arrested at his Massachusetts home Monday and brought before a judge for a brief court appearance. He waived extradition and was transported to New Hampshire, where his lawyer entered the plea.
A trial was tentatively set for November.
A group of 22 riders on 15 motorcycles had just finished dinner Friday and was rolling through the rural town of Randolph, 100 miles north of Concord, en route to a nearby veterans fundraiser. They were members of Marine Jarheads MC, a motorcycle club that includes Marines and their spouses.
Police say Zhukovskyy was driving a 2016 Dodge 2500 pickup, towing a trailer that hauls cars, when it collided with the motorcycles. The criminal complaints allege Zhukovskyy, who was being held without bail, was driving erratically and crossed over the center line of the two-lane highway.
JarHeads president Manny Ribeiro said he was riding on a motorcycle next to Al Mazza, one of those hit by the truck.
“It was just an explosion … with parts and Al and everything flying through the air,” Ribeiro said. “He (Zhukovskyy) turned hard left into us and took out pretty much everyone behind me. ... Because the trailer was attached and it was such a big trailer, it was like a whip. It just cleaned us out.”
Ribeiro told a local CBS-TV station that he and his fellow riders started tying tourniquets, hoping to save the lives of their fellow riders.
“This is far worse than anything I’ve ever experienced,” Ribeiro said. “It was like nothing I’ve ever seen in my life. It was awful.”
Ribeiro said Zhukovskyy got out of his pickup and was screaming and running around in the road before being taken into custody. He was questioned but released.
Zhukovskyy was arrested for drunken driving in 2013 and his license was suspended. Authorities in Connecticut say he was arrested May 11 in an East Windsor Walmart parking lot after revving his vehicle and failing a sobriety test. His lawyer in that case, John O’Brien, said Zhukovskyy will fight the charge.
Zhukovskyy made "suicidal comments" and exhibited "extreme behavior" during the arrest, according to a report filed by East Windsor police, prompting them to send him to a Hartford, Connecticut, hospital for treatment. He was released on a $2,500 non-surety bond.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/apos-just-explosion-apos-trucker-141306219.html
Gofundme https://www.gofundme.com/f/jarheads-mc-victims-and-families-support
**Update** - Thank you all for your continued support, we would like to share an update. The driver of the vehicle has been arrested and charged with 7 counts of negligent homicide, and will be arranged tomorrow, June 25th at 1:30pm at 55 School St. Lancaster, New Hampshire.
On Friday, June 21st 2019 Jarheads MC was riding to a charity event at the local American Legion in Gorham, New Hampshire Post #82. Our pack was struck by an oncoming vehicle and we lost 5 patch holders and 2 supporters, and many others are injured. Our club and the families are going to need help and we cannot do it alone. I am pleading with you all, please do what you can, and 100% of the funds raised will go where it is needed to help ease some of the financial burden left behind after this tragic event. Jarheads MC has always been about helping veterans and their families. Please help us now and give what you can. Everything you can do is appreciated. We are strong enough to get through this, but we ask for and need your support.
Names and conditions of all will not be shared at this time as we are still being impacted by news as it arrives. We will be in New Hampshire the rest of the weekend supporting our friends and families.
*Jarheads Motorcycle Club is a club consisting of active duty or honorably discharged Marines and FMF Corpsmen. We ride and serve veterans and veteran families in our committees, with chapters in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.
Some pictures:
https://i.imgur.com/ls9URcg.png
https://i.imgur.com/GcDHLn8.png
https://i.imgur.com/76O9bG9.png
It's hard enough for bike riders out there and they don't need help from idiots crossing and going head on with them And I would imagine that this allegation of driving on the wrong side is likely true due to the amount of bikers hit.
Here's a story from last week, then an update from today.
Appears it's another Marine that started a gofundme for all of the families and already got up to $500,000 out of an asked for $700,000
Also some photos at the bottom, and I kept them "clean" but they're down there if anyone wants to avoid them.
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Motorcycle community mourns 7 killed in 'devastating' New Hampshire biker crash
The tight-knit motorcycle community was reeling Sunday after a horrific collision left seven people dead and three injured in a remote area of northern New Hampshire.
The group of 10 motorcycles collided with a pickup towing a flatbed trailer on Route 2 around 6:30 p.m. Friday in the small town of Randolph. The pickup caught fire, and witnesses described the scene as "devastating."
Dawn Brindley, a woman riding with the group, survived the crash after getting off her bike and rolling away, New Hampshire TV station WMUR reported.
"It was just all fire," Brindley told WMUR. "I just looked around. Somebody helped me up. I was just hysterical."
Two of the three people injured and taken to hospitals were released Saturday.
Authorities searched for clues to the accident Sunday, and the New Hampshire Attorney General's office released the names of the victims.
NH AG NEWS RELEASE: Names Released in the Fatal Accident in Randolph, New Hampshire pic.twitter.com/44ulgfMs8M
— NH DOJ (@NH_DOJ) June 23, 2019
The crash involved members of Marine Jarheads MC, a motorcycle club in New England that includes Marines and their spouses.
Members of the motorcycle community have already been offering to help victims' families, said Cat Wilson, who organizes a motorcycle charity event in Massachusetts and is a friend of some of the victims.
"When something like this happens, we all feel it,” Wilson said. “There is no tighter community than our biker community.”
Investigators identified the pickup driver as Volodoymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, an employee of Westfield Transport, a company in Springfield, Massachusetts. Zhukovskyy survived the accident, did not need to be hospitalized and has not been charged, authorities said.
Rest - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/23/motorcycle-crash-community-mourns-7-killed/1540672001/
Driver in horrific motorcycle crash pleads not guilty as details emerge
A pickup driver accused of slamming into a group of motorcycles waived arraignment and entered a not guilty plea Tuesday in New Hampshire on seven counts of negligent homicide as chilling details emerged from last week's crash and the man blamed for the carnage.
Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, was arrested at his Massachusetts home Monday and brought before a judge for a brief court appearance. He waived extradition and was transported to New Hampshire, where his lawyer entered the plea.
A trial was tentatively set for November.
A group of 22 riders on 15 motorcycles had just finished dinner Friday and was rolling through the rural town of Randolph, 100 miles north of Concord, en route to a nearby veterans fundraiser. They were members of Marine Jarheads MC, a motorcycle club that includes Marines and their spouses.
Police say Zhukovskyy was driving a 2016 Dodge 2500 pickup, towing a trailer that hauls cars, when it collided with the motorcycles. The criminal complaints allege Zhukovskyy, who was being held without bail, was driving erratically and crossed over the center line of the two-lane highway.
JarHeads president Manny Ribeiro said he was riding on a motorcycle next to Al Mazza, one of those hit by the truck.
“It was just an explosion … with parts and Al and everything flying through the air,” Ribeiro said. “He (Zhukovskyy) turned hard left into us and took out pretty much everyone behind me. ... Because the trailer was attached and it was such a big trailer, it was like a whip. It just cleaned us out.”
Ribeiro told a local CBS-TV station that he and his fellow riders started tying tourniquets, hoping to save the lives of their fellow riders.
“This is far worse than anything I’ve ever experienced,” Ribeiro said. “It was like nothing I’ve ever seen in my life. It was awful.”
Ribeiro said Zhukovskyy got out of his pickup and was screaming and running around in the road before being taken into custody. He was questioned but released.
Zhukovskyy was arrested for drunken driving in 2013 and his license was suspended. Authorities in Connecticut say he was arrested May 11 in an East Windsor Walmart parking lot after revving his vehicle and failing a sobriety test. His lawyer in that case, John O’Brien, said Zhukovskyy will fight the charge.
Zhukovskyy made "suicidal comments" and exhibited "extreme behavior" during the arrest, according to a report filed by East Windsor police, prompting them to send him to a Hartford, Connecticut, hospital for treatment. He was released on a $2,500 non-surety bond.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/apos-just-explosion-apos-trucker-141306219.html
Gofundme https://www.gofundme.com/f/jarheads-mc-victims-and-families-support
**Update** - Thank you all for your continued support, we would like to share an update. The driver of the vehicle has been arrested and charged with 7 counts of negligent homicide, and will be arranged tomorrow, June 25th at 1:30pm at 55 School St. Lancaster, New Hampshire.
On Friday, June 21st 2019 Jarheads MC was riding to a charity event at the local American Legion in Gorham, New Hampshire Post #82. Our pack was struck by an oncoming vehicle and we lost 5 patch holders and 2 supporters, and many others are injured. Our club and the families are going to need help and we cannot do it alone. I am pleading with you all, please do what you can, and 100% of the funds raised will go where it is needed to help ease some of the financial burden left behind after this tragic event. Jarheads MC has always been about helping veterans and their families. Please help us now and give what you can. Everything you can do is appreciated. We are strong enough to get through this, but we ask for and need your support.
Names and conditions of all will not be shared at this time as we are still being impacted by news as it arrives. We will be in New Hampshire the rest of the weekend supporting our friends and families.
*Jarheads Motorcycle Club is a club consisting of active duty or honorably discharged Marines and FMF Corpsmen. We ride and serve veterans and veteran families in our committees, with chapters in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.
Some pictures:
https://i.imgur.com/ls9URcg.png
https://i.imgur.com/GcDHLn8.png
https://i.imgur.com/76O9bG9.png