Coroner identifies motorcyclists killed in Route 512 crash in Bangor - UPDATE

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By Jim Deegan | The Express-Times
Northampton County Coroner Zachary Lysek has identified the victims of Friday's wreck on Route 512 as two men from Passaic County, N.J.
Killed, Lysek said, were Michael Zadoyko, 47, of Pompton Lakes, N.J., and Keith Michaelson, 52, of West Milford, N.J.
Bangor police this afternoon identified the driver whose pickup plowed into a group of bikers as John P. Heaney III, 49, of Lopatcong Township.
District Attorney John Morganelli wouldn't elaborate but said evidence indicates alcohol was a contributing factor in the crash. Heaney is not in police custody, Morganelli said. An investigation is continuing and charges against Heaney are "likely," Morganelli said.
Borough police said the crash is being investigated by the Northampton County District Attorney's Office, Pennsylvania State Police and the Bangor Police Department.
Besides the two men who died, police said six motorcyclists were injured. Their conditions were unknown. Police said they would not be immediately releasing the names of the injured.
Additional details about the crash were not being immediately released, borough police said. A message left at Heaney's home this afternoon was not immediately returned.
All of the bikers were members of the Last Chance Motorcycle Club, a group of clean and sober riders who were headed to a fellow member's viewing in Monroe County, according to a member of the club.
A caravan of seven bikers was headed from northern New Jersey to a funeral home in Gilbert, Pa., for the viewing of Ronald J. Oswald, a 65-year-old Bangor native who lived in Towamensing Township.
Ken Cordes, a member of the club who was at the funeral home, said several people drove from the wake to the crash scene Friday night.
Cordes said the seventh biker in the caravan, who wasn't hurt, said the pickup came at the motorcycles in the opposite direction, on the wrong side of the road.
"The truck was on the wrong side of the road when they saw it," said Cordes, 28."They saw it for a split second and one of the guys yelled 'Watch out.' Before they could do anything, the truck hit the bike in front."
The Last Chance Motorcycle Club has about 60 members with chapters in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, Cordes said.
"We’re a clean and sober club," said Cordes, adding that members, or "patch-holders," had battled alcohol or drug addictions prior to their rehabilitations.
The dead and injured were members of the Greenwood Lake, N.Y., chapter of the motorcycle club, said Cordes, who also belongs to the chapter.
Zadoyko has three children and Michaelson has two adult daughters, he said.
“I find it just unbelievable that both guys’ wives and kids will be without a father for the rest of their lives," Cordes said.