A man died after a motorcycle crash west of Napier on Saturday night.
The man, aged in his late 50s, crashed on Puketapu Rd, between Springfield and Dartmoor roads, just before 6pm, police said.
No other vehicle was thought to have been involved.
According to Ministry of Transport online statistics it was the 14th fatality this year on roads from the Wairoa District in the north to the Tararua District in the south, one less than the 2018 toll to the end of the first week in September.
It was the second motorcycle fatality in the Hawke's Bay region this year.