Police late today named a man who died when a motorcycle and a car collided in Napier on Monday night.
He was 24-year-old Kurtus Stefan Scott, who police said was living in Napier.
The crash happened just after 7.10pm on Monday, on the section Kennedy Rd, between the intersections with Nelson Cr/Owen St and Jull St, outside a Soak laundromat and in the block that includes Napier Intermediate School.
The motorcycle, initially reported by police to have been a motor scooter, was heading to the west away from the Napier CBD when it collided with a turning vehicle in dry conditions on a still night. The machine crossed the road and came to rest beside a tree, and the car ran off the road, crossed a footpath and stopped against a building.
According to Ministry of Transport figures, the provisional 2019 road toll in Napier-Hastings-Central Hawke's Bay by Monday night was eight, three less than at the same stage of last year and the year before.
