Shocking video showed the moment an armed motorcyclist fatally collided with a car after running a red light.
The 19-year-old motorcyclist, who has not been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene after fatally crashing into a red car on West Irving Park Road in the Chicago suburb of Portage Park.
According to police, around 2 a.m. on March 26, the driver ran a red light and headed west at a high rate of speed.
Traffic camera footage shows the horrific moment the pair collided at the intersection, with the motorcyclist being thrown violently from the passenger side of the car and his bike shattering into pieces. video posted on X shows.
The motorcyclist’s body flies several meters across the slippery road before he and his motorcycle come to a stop in the middle of the car.
According to police, he suffered “serious head and body injuries.” ABC 7 Chicago.
An unidentified motorcyclist, 19, was pronounced dead at the scene after fatally crashing into a red car on West Irving Park Road in the Chicago suburb of Portage Park
Traffic camera footage shows the horrific moment the pair collided at the intersection, with the motorcyclist being thrown violently from the passenger side of the car and his bike disintegrating
The 21-year-old driver of the red car suffered cuts to his face and leg and was taken to hospital, the outlet reported.
Later, a police officer could be seen carefully approaching the motorcyclist with a flashlight and taking a weapon from the man’s body, which was lying a few meters away from the deceased man.
DailyMail.com has contacted Chicago police for comment.
A New York father recently discovered his daughters had died in a car accident after tracking their phones to the scene of the accident.
He suffered severe head and body trauma. The 21-year-old driver of the red car suffered cuts to his face and leg and was taken to hospital.
A lone police officer was later seen cautiously approaching the motorcyclist with a flashlight and removing what appeared to be a firearm from the man’s body, placing it several meters away from the deceased man.
Brian Trumble, 45, exclusively told DailyMail.com that he called his daughters Hailey, 19, and Shelby, 17, multiple times after they failed to return home from Seabreeze Amusement Park in Rochester, New York, on August 1.
After tracking them through the Find My Friends app, Brian drove a few miles to their location and saw that police had already cordoned off the crime scene.
He described falling onto the bumper of his car and “not being able to get back up” when emergency workers told him that one of the girls involved in the crash had died.
Brian later learned that a firefighter had stayed with his other daughter “until the end.”