Lake County Sheriff’s Deputies and Antioch firefighters and paramedics responded about 10:25 a.m. Monday, April 14, 2025 to a report of a motorcycle versus garbage truck crash with injuries Grass Lake Road and West Park Avenue in unincorporated Antioch. Lake County Sheriff’s deputies arrived and found the motorcycle driver unresponsive.
Preliminary investigation shows the garbage truck, a 2019 Mack, driven by a 46-year-old man of Ingleside in Lake County, was eastbound on Grass Lake Road, just east of the Grass Lake Bridge. Behind the garbage truck, also traveling eastbound, was a 2017 Harley-Davidson, driven by a 35-year-old man of unincorporated Spring Grove.
The driver of garbage truck began to slow to make a left turn into a parking lot. The driver of the motorcycle attempted to pass the garbage truck on the left and struck the rear of the garbage truck, as it was completing its turn. The motorcycle came to rest near the driver’s side of the cab of the truck. The driver of the motorcycle, who was not wearing a helmet, sustained life-threatening critical injuries. He was transported to Level 1 Trauma Center Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville.
The driver of the garbage truck was uninjured and is cooperating with the investigation.
The speed of the motorcycle appears to be a factor in the crash, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
The crash remains under investigation by the Lake County Sheriffs’s Office Technical Crash Investigations Team.
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