A five-year-old girl has died after a motorbike accident on a farm near Nelson.
At about 2:30pm today police were told that a small two-wheel motorbike had hit a farm fence on private property in the rural township of Tapawera.
Nelson Police, Volunteer Fire and Ambulance crews from Tapawera, responded to the scene along with the Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter.
A five-year-old girl who had been riding the bike was seriously injured and died at the scene.
Victim support are helping the family and witnesses to this tragedy.
