Eve Kolgovaite, 23, of Buffalo Grove, believed to be a motorcycle passenger with Todd William Tracy-Zarebski, 32, of Elgin, were pronounced dead at the scene are the motorcycle they were riding rear-ended a semi-trailer truck at a high rate of speed.
Both were riding on a Honda CBR 1100 motorcycle in the center lane of westbound I-80 near Mokena, Illinois when the motorcycle struck a 1993 Mack tractor and 2000 Dierzen dump trailer near Wolf Road at 2:02 a.m.
The dump trailer caught fire. The driver of the truck was not seriously injured.
Illinois State Police District 5 in Will County investigated the crash.
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