A motorcycle driver was killed Saturday, after a crash in Tantallon, N.S. outside Halifax.
Halifax District RCMP say they were called at around 7:15 p.m. to the accident on Highway 103 at the inbound off-ramp to Tantallon.
Police say the 70-year-old man from Lower Sackville who was driving the motorcycle suffered life-threatening injuries, and a LifeFlight helicopter was called to the scene.
However, the man died from his injuries before being transported to hospital.
A 51-year-old woman, also from Lower Sackville, who was a passenger on the motorcycle suffered minor injuries and was taken to hospital by ambulance.
The section of highway was closed for several hours as police investigated.
There were several fatalities on the roads and and water in Nova Scotia over the Natal Day long weekend.
Also on Saturday, a 24-year-old Whitney Pier man died in a boating accident on Bras D’or Lake, and two men from Cape Breton were killed in a single-vehicle crash in Strathlorne, N.S. early Sunday morning.
A 68-year-old man from Cape Forchu was also killed while trying to access the waterfront from a steep hill on Saturday evening.
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