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We have been practicing law in Boston and throughout Massachusetts since 1985. I have represented clients in District Courts, Superior Courts, the Appeals Court, Housing Court, Probate Courts, Federal Bankruptcy Court and the Federal District Court.
In a recent early morning car accident in Milton, Massachusetts, one person suffered fatal injuries when a motorist traveling north in the southbound lane of I-93 near Exit 3 collided with another vehicle traveling southbound. There were few details about the crash other than that one of the occupants in the involved vehicles was ejected, and another was trapped inside the car. There was no indication of what led the culpable driver to be on the opposite side of the highway.
A New Hampshire court recently denied bond to a 24-year old West Springfield, Massachusetts man accused of running down and killing 7 motorcyclists on Route 2 in Randolph, New Hampshire on June 21, 2019. The man, Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, is reportedly a citizen of Ukraine. Prosecutors had argued that he presented a clear danger to the public given his documented drug use, and constituted an extreme flight risk in that he was likely to return to his country of origin, Ukraine, where he still has family. Zhukovskyy’s status is that of a permanent U.S. resident but he remains a Ukrainian national and is not a citizen. Accordingly, immigration officials were poised to deport him once criminal proceedings were concluded. It was not clear if Zhukovskyy would first have to serve out his sentence, if convicted, before being subject to deportation.
It is a sad and tragic fact that car accidents are the number one cause of death for individuals who are 19
years of age and under. However, there was some good news for our younger Massachusetts motorists
from a recently published study by ValuePenguin. The study analyzed data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) compiled from 2004 to 2018 using its Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). The findings indicated that Massachusetts was 49 th out of 50 states in the
percentage of auto fatality rates for children and teens per 100,000 people.
For years, motorists and truckers have had to contend with unreasonably dangerous conditions at the
junction of I-495 and the Massachusetts Turnpike in Hopkinton. One motorist who is familiar with the
area has named it “the Nexus of Hell.” Although changes typically come slowly, especially at the
government level, a $21 Million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation was recently
announced for the re-design and upgrading of this critical portion of the Massachusetts Turnpike. Some
construction has been ongoing and 25% of the project is expected to be undertaken shortly. The
completion date is scheduled for 2026.
A rollover accident on the Massachusetts turnpike in early October resulted in a spill of thousands of
bananas and the leaking of about 100 gallons of gasoline from the overturned truck. State police were
forced to close eastbound lanes at Exit 18 for 9-hours while the bananas were recovered, and absorbent
used to neutralize the diesel fuel. Fortunately, there were no reported injuries. There were no details about what caused the driver to lose control of the vehicle.