{"id":12917,"date":"2026-06-29T11:46:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/?p=12917"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:46:32","slug":"police-investigate-fatal-motorcycle-and-car-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/police-investigate-fatal-motorcycle-and-car-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Investigate Fatal Motorcycle and Car Collision."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">East Hants District RCMP is investigating a fatal collision that occurred in South Maitland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On June 28, at approximately 2:05 p.m., East Hants District RCMP, fire services, and EHS responded to a report of a collision in the 10300 block of Hwy. 215. Officers learned that a southbound motorcycle and a northbound Mazda MX-5 had collided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The driver and sole occupant of the motorcycle, a 71-year-old man from Lower Truro, was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The driver and passenger of the Mazda, both from Truro, did not report any physical injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hwy. 215 was closed for several hours while an RCMP collision reconstructionist attended the location of the collision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The investigation is ongoing, with assistance from the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone who witnessed the collision, including those with dashcam footage, is asked to contact East Hants District RCMP at 902-883-7077.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: RCMP Release <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Hants District RCMP is investigating a fatal collision that occurred in South Maitland. On June 28, at approximately 2:05<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12918,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12917\/revisions\/12918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}