The motorcyclist who died after colliding with a truck on the Hawke's Bay Expressway, Napier has been named as Eric David Gordon.
Emergency services were called to the two-vehicle crash between Watchman Rd and Main North Rd about 7.32am on October 2.
The 36-year-old was from Napier.
"Our sympathies are with his family and friends at this time," a police spokeswoman said.
Sixteen people have died on Hawke's Bay roads in 2020 – the joint highest death toll in the previous five years.