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Motorcyclist from Sackville killed in highway crash on Natal Day long weekend

A motorcycle crash in Tantallon, N.S. outside Halifax seriously injured the driver. Alexa MacLean/Global News

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.

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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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