In closing arguments Tuesday, attorneys for both sides offered different perspectives on who was responsible for the deaths of seven people who were riding their motorcycles on Route 2, about 100 miles northeast of Concord. Some were on their way to a charity event in Gorham when a flurry of collisions sent riders running onto the road in a scene witnesses described as bloody and chaotic.
Mr. Duguay argued in his summation that Albert Mazza Jr., the president of the Jarheads motorcycle club who was killed in the collision, caused the crash because he was “driving his motorcycle drunk, not looking where he was going, lost control of his bike and just slid into the oncoming truck.
Mr. Duguay also said prosecution witnesses offered conflicting accounts of what happened before the crash: one witness said she saw Mr. Zhukovsky’s truck swerve into the lanes, while another said she did not f. The witnesses, Mr. Duguay said, shared “completely different irreconcilable memories.”
But prosecutors said that while Mr. Mazza’s disability was a “bad choice,” it ultimately had nothing to do with the crash.
“Not one person saw Mazza damaged or off the road,” Scott D. Chase, New Hampshire’s assistant attorney general, said during closing arguments. “But every person on that road has seen the accused all over it.”
A National Transportation Safety Board report released in December 2020 found that on the day of the crash, Mr. Zhukovsky was “impaired by several drugs,” including heroin, fentanyl and cocaine. At the time, he worked for Westfield Transport, a trucking company, and drove to Albany, N.Y., and Gorham, according to court records.
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