American Military News by Ryan Morgan 1/31/2022
A U.S. Marine Corps veteran is suing the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (Mass. RMV) for failing to suspend the license of the trucker that hit and injured him in 2019, despite the trucker’s previous refusal of a breathalyzer test.
Joshua Morin, who served as a mortarman in the Marines, is suing the Mass. RMV, the Berkshire Eagle first reported Sunday. Morin’s lawsuit alleges the agency willfully, wantonly or recklessly failed to process thousands of license suspensions, including for truck driver Volodymyr Zhukovskyy.
On June 21, 2019, Morin was riding his motorcycle with the Jarheads Motorcycle Club, a motorcycle club for Marine veterans. Zhukovskyy, who was out driving at the same time, crossed a double yellow line and ran into the group, killing seven of its members, including five Marine veterans and two civilians.
Last year, the Boston Globe published a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Mass. RMV, revealing the agency hadn’t been acting on dozens of out-of-state notifications about driving violations. Zhukovskyy was one such driver whose license had been suspended after he reportedly refused a chemical breath test in Connecticut. Despite the license suspension in Conn., Zhukovskyy’s suspension was not processed in Mass. That failure to process his suspension allowed Zhukovskyy to get a job at Western Transport and obtain a commercial driver’s license.
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