Motorcyclist: Truck plowed through ‘like a bowling ball’

The last rider in a group of Marine motorcycle club members has testified that he saw a “ball of flame” and then a truck “plowing through motorcycles like a bowling ball” in a 2019 crash in New Hampshire that killed seven bikers.

Michael McEachern testified Wednesday in the trial of the truck driver, Volodymyr Zhukovskyy.

He said he saw the westbound truck, which was pulling a flatbed trailer, hit some of the eastbound riders shortly after the group left a motel to head to an American Legion post for a meeting that June 21.

The 26-year-old Zhukovskyy pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of negligent homicide, manslaughter, driving under the influence and reckless conduct.

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