Two separate crashes on Highway 102 Wednesday morning have left one man dead and another injured.
Halifax Regional Police are investigating both collisions and had closed a portion of the 102 for most of the morning.
Officers were called to the first crash, a single vehicle collision, at 7:12 a.m.
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A tractor-trailer left the road and ended up in the ditch of Highway 102 between Lacewood Drive and Kearney Lake Road.
A 57-year-old, who was the only occupant of the vehicle, was found unconscious when police arrived. He was transported by Emergency Health Services to a hospital but later died.
Two hours later, at 9:10 a.m., police responded to a collision between a pickup and an HRP motorcycle that had been there to direct traffic after the previous accident.
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The driver of the pickup truck, the lone occupant of the vehicle was treated by EHS for non-life threatening injuries.
The officer avoided injury by jumping into the nearby median to avoid getting hit.
The 102 has since re-opened.