Traffic delays on Adelaide’s North-South Motorway after motorbike crash

Motorists were left driving bumper-to-bumper after a motorbike crash on the North-South Motorway at morning rush hour – just hours after a young motorcyclist died on the same thoroughfare.

Delays on Bolivar Rd. Picture: Leah Smith

There were major traffic delays on a major motorway after a serious motorbike collision on Friday morning.

SA Police said traffic was held up on the North-South Motorway starting from the Bolivar on-ramp after a single vehicle collision involving a motorbike, just before 8am.

Emergency services take away the motorbike. Picture: Leah Smith

The rider, a 30-year-old man, was reported to have sustained serious, but non-life threatening, chest injuries. He was taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

It happened just hours after a young motorcyclist died after a crash on the same motorway. Police were alerted to the collision on the Wingfield interchange at Dry Creek, on the ramp to the North-South Motorway at about 4.30pm Thursday.

A 19-year-old man from Munno Para died at the scene.

Major Crash investigators examined the scene, forcing road closures for several hours.

He is the 65th person to die on our state’s roads this year.

Originally published as Traffic delays on Adelaide’s North-South Motorway after motorbike crash