Motorcyclist dies in Dunedin Northern Motorway crash

Emergency services were called to the crash just after 10am. Photo / Stephen Jaquiery, ODT

A motorcyclist has died in a crash which closed Dunedin’s Northern Motorway (State Highway 1) for several hours today.

The collision involving a car and motorcycle happened shortly after 10am in the Mt Cargill area.

In a statement this afternoon, police said the motorcyclist died at the scene.

There were no other injuries.

Waka Kotahi/NZ Transport Agency advised about 3.30pm that the highway had reopened, after being closed between Harvey St in Waitati and Great King St.

An Otago Daily Times photographer at the scene earlier today said the crash appeared to have happened in a passing lane, heading up a hill north of the intersection with Waitati Valley Rd.

Three fire appliances and multiple ambulances and police cars attended.

Tarpaulins were put up to screen the crash from onlookers.

A number of motorcycles were parked in the vicinity.

A short time before the crash a group of motorcyclists roared through Dunedin, heading north.