Overview

• A 54-year-old man riding a motorcycle southbound on Halsted Street collided with a northbound black coupe that made an illegal U-turn at about 12:08 a.m. Sunday.
• Officers found the motorcyclist with severe trauma and he was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
• The Chicago Police Department’s Major Accidents Investigation Unit recovered the coupe unoccupied a short distance from the scene and confirmed it had executed the U-turn.
• No arrests have been made and the driver remains unidentified as police appeal to the public for information.
• The crash underscores a summer surge in hit-and-run and traffic violence that has strained Chicago police resources on the South Side.