A 70-year-old man is dead after a motorcycle crash in Aspotogan, Lunenburg County.

RCMP say it was Sunday around 10:40 a.m., when police responded to a report that a man and a motorcycle was seen off Highway 329.

According to investigators the motorcycle left the road at a sharp turn and went over an embankment.

The man from Hubley, Nova Scotia, was the only one on the motorcycle and was pronounced dead at the scene.