Frankfort Woman Dies after Thrown from Motorcycle

A Frankfort woman died Friday after being thrown from a motorcycle on which she was a passenger, in a collision at an I-57 rest area.

Giedre Pyzik, 51, was astride a 2006 Harley-Davidson motorcycle piloted by her boyfriend Chris Hoerler, of Oak Lawn, when they collided with another motorcycle from behind as the three were pulling into a rest area near Loda, Ill, Chicago Tribune reports.

The trio had been traveling together, according to the report. Hoerler, 56, and the other motorcycle driver, a 45-year-old Oak Lawn man, were hospitalized with non-lifethreatening injuries.

Pyzik was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said she was not wearing a helmet.