LANCASTER — The court will allow evidence that the driver of the truck that killed seven motorcyclists in Randolph last year had been driving erratically that day and had overdosed on heroin a month before the fatal collision.

But Coos County Superior Court Judge Peter Bornstein denied a motion to allow the state to introduce evidence of two prior instances where defendant Volodymyr Zhukovskyy’s “erratic driving” had resulted in motor vehicle accidents.

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