A 40-year-old man was killed when his motorcycle slammed into a wall along the Great Ocean Road yesterday afternoon.
The motorcyclist was travelling between Lorne and Skenes Creek about 2pm when he overtook a Porsche Boxster and clipped a Subaru wagon.
Police said the rider, a 40-year-old Ballarat man, then ploughed into the wall and died before ambulance workers arrived at the scene near Cumberland River.
Sergeant Brian McKiterick, of Torquay police, said traffic was diverted from the coastal route for most of the afternoon.
It is the region’s second motorcycle fatality in days after a single vehicle accident killed a rider on Sunday.
In that incident, a 57-year-old North Geelong man was killed as he travelled east on Cape Otway Rd near Wensleydale-Station Rd in Wurdiboluc.
The man lost control of his motorbike while approaching a right-hand bend and struck a fence about 2.45pm.
On the same day, a 39-year-old man was injured when his motorbike went under a car while travelling towards Anglesea on the Great Ocean Road about 6km east of Lorne. He man suffered leg and shoulder fractures.
Anglesea police Sergeant Kevin Warburton this week urged all motorists, and particularly motorcyclists, to travel safely and more responsibly on the roads.
Yesterday’s fatality takes the state’s road toll to 27 for the year compared to 31 for the same time last year.
lets be safe out there…..on road or trail.
