A 17-year-old boy was killed Saturday while skateboarding in northwest suburban Arlington Heights.

Officials responded about 7 p.m. to the 4100 block of North Ridge Avenue for a traffic crash with injuries, Arlington Heights police said.

An initial investigation found that Levi Matsuda was holding onto the side door of a 2015 Honda Pilot southbound on Ridge Avenue, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. At one point, Matsuda was separated from the vehicle and fell.

He suffered severe head injuries and was taken to Northwest Community Hospital where he later died, authorities said. Matsuda lived in Buffalo Grove.

Matsuda would have been a senior at Buffalo Grove High School this fall, according to the Daily Herald.

”We extend our heartfelt sympathy to his family,” Principal Jeff Wardle wrote in a message to the school community Sunday, the Daily Herald reported.

An autopsy conducted by the medical examiner’s office ruled Matsuda’s death an accident, saying he died of multiple injuries related to the fall.

Arlington Heights police are investigating the incident.