2 more motorists killed at Mile 37.5, Glenn Highway

PALMER — Two men died late Friday night after the motorcycles they were piloting stuck a passenger vehicle near Mile 37.5, Glenn Highway.

Alaska State Troopers and medics responded to the scene near Echo Lake around 10:55 p.m., July 24.

Troopers say their preliminary investigation determined a group of motorcycles were northbound on the Glenn Highway from Anchorage at a high rate of speed.

Two of those riders — Adam Johnson, 21, of Wasilla, and David Hecker, 21, of Wasilla — were killed when they struck a 2001 Honda Odyssey traveling southbound on the Glenn, troopers said.

The driver of the passenger vehicle — identified as Lance Shepard, 35, of Ohio — was transported to Mat-Su Regional Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries, troopers said. A passenger in Shepard’s vehicle was transported by LifeMed to Mat-Su Regional for treatment of life-threatening injuries.

The State Medical Examiner took possession of the deceased men for autopsy, troopers said.

It’s the second fatal crash at this spot on the Glenn this summer and the third in the past 14 months. Three people on motorcycles were killed in a May 2014 crash and an out-of-state man died in a head-on crash there this May.

Troopers ask anyone who witnessed this incident to call 352-5401.