RMV has suspended 869 more driver's licenses, pushing total to more than 2,400

Massachusetts’ embattled Registry of Motor Vehicles on Thursday confirmed the license suspensions of 869 more drivers amid an ongoing review of operations launched after a deadly crash in June involving a West Springfield man who it says shouldn’t have been on the road.

The tally was provided by Acting Registrar Jamey Tesler in an eight-page interim progress report, the fifth such report from the RMV since the scandal erupted. He also said the Registry will mail notices for about 45,000 convictions and suspensions dating back to March 2018, when the state launched a new computer system for handling driver and vehicle records.

Tesler said in the report that the agency has submitted 5.2 million state driver records to the National Driver Register, or NDR, to search for suspendable offenses committed by Massachusetts drivers in other states.

That was a necessary step after Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, of West Springfield, allegedly plowed his truck into a group of motorcyclists in June in Randolph, N.H., killing seven people. Zhukovskyy, who now faces negligent homicide charges, had been arrested for OUI the month before in Connecticut and refused a chemical breath test, which was supposed to trigger the suspension of his commercial driver’s license. But the Mass. RMV failed to act at the time.

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