A suburban Chicago teen has been identified as the motorcyclist killed in a frightening crash on a Chicago-area expressway last week.

Jordan Jerome Jeffery, 18, of Waukegan, died of "blunt force injuries" due to a motorcycle crash on Interstate 294, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.

The crash happened just after 2:30 p.m. on the expressway west of Wolfe Road in Franklin Park Thursday.

There, police said two vehicles, a Mercedes Sprinter and a freightliner truck-tractor, were traveling slowly "due to heavy traffic congestion." A Kawasaki motorcycle weaving in between lanes of traffic lost control and struck the Mercedes Sprinter from behind, according to state police.

The driver of the motorcycle "became airborne and landed in the roadway," where he was then hit by

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