Motorcyclist killed in Portage Park crash

A motorcycle crashed, leaving a 19-year-old man dead on the city’s Northwest Side early Tuesday.

A man died on the scene of a motorcycle crash after running a red light in Portage Park early Tuesday, police said.

The man, 19, sped through a red light in the 5600 block of West Irving Park Road around 3:30 a.m., Chicago police said.

He broadsided a car on its passenger side and was dead on the scene with major trauma to the head and body, police said.

The driver of the car, a 21-year-old man, suffered a minor laceration to the face and a minor leg injury and was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in good condition.

The Major Accidents unit of the Chicago Police Department is investigating the crash.

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