A staff member of the Hawke's Bay Regional Council has died in an accident last night on a rural farm in Hawke's Bay.
Police were alerted to a sudden death of a 44-year-old man on Tukituki Rd in Ashley Clinton at 8.10pm on Friday.
Council officials have confirmed the man was killed in a four-wheel drive accident.
The alarm was raised on Friday night when he had not returned to work, and his vehicle tracker was not moving.
HBRC chief executive chief executive Andrew Newman said this afternoon that his throughts, and those of the wider council team, were with the dead man's family.