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A motorcycle rider died following a collision with a pickup Thursday morning south of Woodstock, Oxford County OPP said.
The crash occurred at about 8:15 a.m. at the intersection of Highway 59 and Substation Road about 10 kilometres south of Woodstock, police said. Roads in the area were closed while police investigated.
The rider of the motorcycle, a 33-year-old resident of Port Rowan, was flown by air ambulance to hospital where they died, police said. The name of the deceased was not released.
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The driver of the pickup had minor injuries, police said.
The crash is the latest in a string of deadly motorcycle collisions on Southwestern Ontario roads that have killed seven people since June 13, consistent with a provincewide rise in motorcycle deaths. The others include:
- A 30-year-old London man was killed when his motorcycle collided with a passenger vehicle at Prospect Hill and Plover Mills roads in a rural swath of Thames Centre, northwest of Thorndale, on July 13 about 6 p.m.
- A 74-year-old on a motorcycle was killed in a collision on Bluewater Highway, north of Goderich along the Lake Huron coastline, on July 13, at about 1:30 p.m.
- A motorcycle left the road and struck a tree killing the driver on June 23 at about 2:45 a.m. in the area of Longwoods Road and Sassafras Road, about halfway between London and Chatham. Police said no other vehicles were involved
- Two people were killed when the motorcycle they were riding was involved in a crash on Egremont Drive near Strathroy on June 15 just after 1 p.m. A 46-year-old woman from Adelaide Metcalfe is charged under the Highway Traffic Act with two counts of careless driving causing death.
- Steve Skelton, of Dorchester, was killed in a June 13 collision with a passenger vehicle at the rural Oxford County intersection of Road 96 and 37th Line, about 10 kilometres southwest of Tavistock.
Anyone with information about the latest crash including dash cam footage, is asked to contact Oxford OPP at 1-888-310-1122.
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