A 35-year-old man is dead after the scooter he was on collided with a semi-truck on Chicago’s West Side Thursday afternoon.
According to police, the man was riding a scooter in the 4700 block of West Erie when he entered the street’s intersection with North Cicero in the South Austin neighborhood.
The scooter then collided with a truck, which was driving southbound through the intersection, police said.
The scooter’s rider was transported to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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The CPD’s Major Accident Investigation Unit is investigating the crash, and no citations have been issued at this time.
