Chicago, IL : A man was killed in a motorcycle crash on Sunday, June 18, 2017

A man was killed in a motorcycle crash Sunday night in the Southwest Side Garfield Ridge neighborhood near Midway International Airport.

About 10 p.m., 29-year-old Matthew J. Bobak was traveling east on a Ducati motorcycle in the 5000 block of West 55th Street when his motorcycle rear-ended a 2015 GMC Acadia that was turning east out of a parking lot, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The man was thrown from the motorcycle and into oncoming traffic, where he was then struck by a Jeep Wrangler traveling west on 55th, police said.

Bobak, who lived in southwest suburban Justice, was pronounced dead at the scene at 10:21 p.m., authorities said. No other injuries were reported.

The police Major Accident Investigations Unit was investigating the crash.

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Motorcyclist killed in Garfield Ridge crash near Midway