Person dead after crash between car and motorbike

4:48 pm on 6 October 2019

A person has died and two have been seriously injured in separate motorcycle crashes today.

Close up of a St John ambulance on a residential street.

Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly

One person died after a collision between a motorbike and a car near State Highway 6 in Rai Valley in Marlborough about 11am.

And in the central North Island, two people have been seriously injured in an off-road motorcycle crash near Rotorua.

Police said the crash happened about 1pm near the intersection of State Highway 1 and Ohakuri Road south of Lake Atiamuri.