A 17-year-old boy from Huntley has died in the hospital after he was involved in a high-speed motorcycle crash with a sedan in Arlington Heights, authorities said.
The Arlington Heights Fire Department, Buffalo Grove Fire Department and Arlington Heights Police Department responded around 11:01 p.m. Friday to the area of Hintz Road and Bradford Drive.
Multiple 911 calls were received for a two-vehicle crash involving a motorcycle.
Two victims from the motorcycle were reported to be lying in the roadway.
Fire crews arrived and confirmed a car and a motorcycle were involved, with two victims down on the road. Two ambulances were dispatched.
Police officials said the driver of the motorcycle, a 17-year-old boy, was unconscious at the scene while the 17-year-old male passenger was conscious.
Paramedics transported both victims to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, a Level 1 trauma center.
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the driver as Imandeep Singh, of Huntley. While police said Singh was 17 years old, the medical examiner’s office said he was 20.
Singh died from his injuries in the hospital on Monday. The passenger was hospitalized with serious injuries but was stabilized.
Police officials said an investigation showed the 2023 Ninja Kawasaki motorcycle was traveling eastbound on Hintz Road approaching Bradford Drive.
A 2012 Mercedes-Benz C300 was facing northbound on Bradford Drive in the process of making a left turn onto westbound Hinz Road.
The motorcycle struck the rear driver’s side door of the Mercedes-Benz.
A witness told investigators the motorcycle was driving at a high rate of speed just prior to the crash, police officials said.
The driver of the Mercedes-Benz, a 19-year-old woman, and her passenger, an 18-year-old woman, did not report any injuries.
Neither occupant of the motorcycle was wearing a helmet, police officials said. No signs of impairment were observed for the driver of the Mercedes-Benz.
Arlington Heights resident Vukasin Dejkovic said Singh “lit the room” with his kindness and “never failed to put smiles on other people’s faces.”
“You will be missed by many people who you have greatly blessed to call you a friend. You have left such a positive and profound effect of peoples lives and that will be carried within them,” Dejkovic said.
A GoFundMe account to raise money for the boy’s family has collected over $5,000 as of Thursday.
The crash remains under investigation by the Arlington Heights Police Department.