Crime & Safety

Evergreen Park Man Involved in Motorcycle Fatality

A woman fell off the man's Harley-Davidson on the Indiana Toll Road Saturday morning.

A woman died after falling off the back of a motorcycle driven by an Evergreen Park man on the Indiana Toll Road Saturday morning. Indiana State Police said Isela Vargas, 48, of East Chicago, Indiana, wasn't wearing a helmet and suffered a head injury when she fell off the Harley-Davidson motorcycle at 9:45 a.m. near Grant Street on I-80/94.

Rickey Salazar of Evergreen Park was driving westbound on the interstate when she fell. She was pronounced dead at Methodist Hospital Northlake in Gary. Police are investigating the cause of the accident. Salazar was not hurt.

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