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Ontario police watchdog investigating death of motorcyclist in Richmond Hill

The Special Investigations Unit's office in Mississauga. Nick Westoll / File / Global News

RICHMOND HILL, Ont. – Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit says it is probing the weekend death of a 31-year-old man in Richmond Hill, Ont.

The SIU says provincial police were called to the intersection of two highways at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday after receiving reports of an abandoned motorcycle.

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They say police looked around but could not locate the driver.

The SIU says police were called back to the scene an hour and a half later for reports of a man lying in the road roughly opposite to where the motorcycle had been found.

Officers took the man to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The SIU is an arms-length agency that investigates incidents involving police in which someone is killed, seriously injured or accused of sexual assault.

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