He was a wrecking machine before the gruesome N.H. crash. Why didn't anyone stop Volodymyr Zhukovskyy?
Zhukovskyy, a skinny, fidgety 23-year-old with a penchant for gold chains, fast cars, heroin, and Hennessy, had a long trail of crashes behind him when he was handed the keys to a truck. Any questions about him wouldn’t draw notice for a few more days, when it was already too late and seven people lay dying on a lonely mountain road in New Hampshire amid twisted metal and flames.

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