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18-year-old motorcyclist killed in Mount Prospect crash

An 18-year-old Mundelein man was killed Tuesday morning in a crash involving the motorcycle he was driving and at least one other vehicle on a stretch of Algonquin Road in Mount Prospect.

The crash occurred about 6 a.m. near the intersection of Algonquin Road and Briarwood Drive, Mount Prospect police said. The motorcyclist was pronounced dead on the scene, according to police.

Police said the motorcycle was traveling east on Algonquin Road when the crash occurred, but other details remain under investigation.

Algonquin Road was closed in both directions between Dempster Street and Embers Lane until about 1 p.m., as Mount Prospect police and the Major Case Assistant Team’s Serious Traffic Accident Reconstruction Unit examined the scene.

  Police closed a stretch of Algonquin Road in Mount Prospect for about seven hours Tuesday while investigating a fatal crash involving a motorcycle and at least one other vehicle. Steve Zalusky/szalusky@dailyherald.com
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