A road block on Stock Rd after a fatal crash on Thursday. Photo/File
A road block on Stock Rd after a fatal crash on Thursday. Photo/File
Police are appealing for witnesses after Thursday's fatal crash involving a motorcycle in Hastings.
The Hawke's Bay Serious Crash Unit is investigating the crash that occurred on Thursday morning on Stock Rd, Hastings, and are appealing for information from the public.
The crash involved a red off-road motorcycle with twomale riders, and a light truck on Stock Rd near Equestrian Lane.
The motorcycle rider killed after the collision was a 16-year-old male, police have confirmed
Emergency services were called to the scene of the crash about 8.30am on Stock Rd, near the intersection with Irongate West Rd.
A police spokesperson said the motorcycle rider was pronounced dead at the scene and a teenage boy, the pillion passenger on the motorbike, was taken to Hawke's Bay Hospital, Hastings. As of yesterday afternoon he was in a stable condition in a ward.
A police officer at the scene said a motorbike was travelling on the wrong side of Stock Rd, on a limestone cycle pathway, heading north toward Flaxmere, when a truck pulled out of a driveway. Investigations into the crash were ongoing and the Serious Crash Unit and Commercial Vehicle Safety Team had been advised.
A police spokesperson said inquiries so far have identified that this motorcycle was seen in the Stock and Maraekakaho Rds area a short time before the crash, being ridden on the grass verge and limestone cycleway track.