LAKE FOREST, Ill. (WLS) -- A motorcyclist was killed in a north suburban crash involving a semi on Sunday, police said.
The Lake Forest police and fire departments responded to a crash on northbound Route 41 at Westleigh Road at about 4:10 p.m.
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Police said a motorcyclist, identified only as male, was driving a 2017 Suzuki northbound on Route 41 when it tried to pass between a 2019 Kenworth semi-tractor with a loaded trailer in the curbside lane and another vehicle in the inside lane. That maneuver is known as "lane-splitting."
While trying to pass in between both vehicles, the motorcycle struck the rear driver's side of the trailer, police said. The motorcyclist was ejected and killed immediately.
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The victim's name was not immediately released, and the driver of the semi was not injured.
The crash is being investigated.