A motorcyclist has died after he was struck twice on a major motorway.<\/p>\n
The man was hit near the M4 at Merrylands, by the Burnett Rd on-ramp, in Western Sydney about 2am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The rider was knocked from his motorcycle by a white sedan and then hit by a second vehicle, which was a police car.<\/p>\n
The man was critically injured and paramedics began CPR before the rider was taken to Westmead Hospital fighting for life.<\/p>\n
He could not be revived, and is yet to be formally identified, NSW Police said.<\/p>\n
The driver of the white sedan, and the male senior constable involved in the crash, were also taken to Westmead Hospital for mandatory testing.<\/p>\n
The police officer involved was not on urgent duty at the time of the crash, and did not have lights or sirens activated at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere had been no interaction with, and no pursuit of, the motorcyclist or any other vehicle,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n
The officers were returning to a police station when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n
The investigation will be the subject of an independent review by the Professional Standards Command and oversight by the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission.<\/p>\n
The M4 is closed to eastbound traffic as emergency services work at the scene, and there is no forecast of when the road will reopen.<\/p>\n
Light vehicles are being diverted on the Cumberland Hwy, Great Western Hwy and Burnett St to return to the M4 Mwy, according to LiveTraffic NSW.<\/p>\n
Heavy vehicles are being diverted on the Cumberland Hwy, Great Western Hwy, Church St, Parramatta Rd and James Ruse Dr to return to M4 Mwy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcyclist has died after he was struck twice on a major motorway. The man was hit near…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25011,4,450,451,3,25012,25013,25014,452,453,25015,140],"class_list":["post-29587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-adelaide","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-nsw-news","tag-queensland-news","tag-sa-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-vic-news","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}