Brandon Lipe, 31, dies after his motorcycle rear-end SUV and he is run over by semi-truck on Route 41 near Lake Bluff, Illinois
Coroner IDs motorcyclist killed after crashing into SUV, being run over by semi-truck near Lake Bluff
The impact caused Lipe to be thrown forward from the motorcycle.
Lipe slid underneath a trailer being pulled by a Peterbilt Semi, driven by a 59-year-old Mundelein man.
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