PORT ANGELES — Donations have ensured that Jordan Bond can fix his truck.
The Sequim man damaged his 1992 Mazda pickup when he stopped an alleged hit-and-run driver by ramming his truck into the other driver’s after two bicyclists were mowed down on U.S. Highway 101 west of Port Angeles.
Bond received a $1,231.91 check Friday from a First Federal bank account set up by Dan and Laneta DaFoe of Port Angeles.
A separate fundraiser, a GoFundMe account set up by Leslie Rudd, raised $3,340 in 23 days, with 75 people contributing.
The goal was $3,000 at the website at www.gofundme.com/fixjordanbondstruc.
Bond, 35, will use the money to repair the pickup he was driving when he intentionally crashed into another truck driven by Anthony J. McKenzie of Port Angeles on Sept. 7.
Bond said the truck sustained about $3,000 worth of damage.
Any money left over from repairs will go to a good cause, he said.
The State Patrol said McKenzie, 28, was driving under the influence of drugs when he crashed into two bicycles being ridden by Dominick and Jeanie Chellino of Channahon, Ill., in Indian Valley west of Port Angeles.
Dominick Chellino, 58, had minor injuries while Jeanie Chellino, 54, was treated in the intensive care unit at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Bond’s girlfriend, Kristy Davis, said Jeanie Chellino returned home Friday.
Among those donating to the GoFundMe account was a woman who wrote that she is a sister of the injured woman.
“Thank you for stopping the driver who harmed my sister Jeanie and her husband Dominick,” said Janie Santor, adding also thanks to those who helped the couple after they were hit.
The First Federal account received contributions from 21 people.
“I’m really grateful,” Bond said after the Defoes presented the check to Bond at Gordy’s Pizza in Port Angeles Friday night.
“I didn’t expect it by any means.”
Bond learned of the First Federal bank account fundraiser Thursday, said Laneta DeFoe.
“It was big surprise to him,” she said.
The damage to Bond’s truck includes a broken grille and bumper, a crinkled hood and a shifted frame holding the radiator, according to www.gofundme.com/fixjordanbondstruc.
The day it happened, Bond and Davis said they had followed an erratically driven Toyota pickup from the Port Angeles Haggen store to Indian Valley on Labor Day morning.
The pickup McKenzie was driving was “continuously going in the other lane and then the shoulder,” Bond said.
Davis was on the phone with 9-1-1 dispatchers when the couple said they witnessed the pickup run down the bicyclists on the westbound shoulder on a straight stretch of highway near Milepost 237.
Acting on instinct, Bond made sure there was no oncoming traffic and side-swiped the pickup to force it off the road, he said.
“He hit them and kept going,” Bond said.
“There wasn’t really a decision.”
McKenzie was charged Sept. 12 with vehicular assault and two counts of hit-and-run injury accident.
He faces a Nov. 2 trial in Clallam County Superior Court.
He was released on his own recognizance Wednesday, when Superior Court Judge Brian Coughenour granted defense attorney John Hayden’s request to release McKenzie from the Clallam County jail.
McKenzie is under orders not to drive and to have random drug tests at least twice a week.
According to court documents, McKenzie told investigators he had taken one of two prescription pain pills for back pain before driving Sept. 7.
A 30-milligram Oxycodone pill was found in the vehicle, troopers said in the probable-cause statement.
McKenzie said the pills were given to him by a friend, court papers said.
A portable breath test found no alcohol in McKenzie’s system.
A pretrial status hearing is scheduled for Oct. 9.
Laneta Dafoe, whose son attended high school with Bond, said she wanted to help Bond because he was always helpful as a youth.
“He was right there, first thing, to help us do something,” she said.
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Reporter Rob Ollikainen can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 5072, or at rollikainen@peninsuladailynews.com.
