ST. CHARLES - A 25-year-old man from St. Charles was killed late Sunday night in a motorcycle crash, police said.

A few minutes before midnight, Nick Chester II was heading north in the 1600 block of Zumbehl Road, police said. Chester drove between two vehicles also heading north and struck a curb near Hawks Nest Drive.

Police said the Harley-Davidson motorcycle was accelerating "at a high rate of speed" when Chester was thrown from the motorcycle and suffered a severe head injury.

Authorities said Chester was in cardiac arrest when paramedics took him to St. Joseph Health Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Chester was wearing a skull cap, authorities said.

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