SALEM, Ore. — A man has died after a crash involving a construction excavator in Salem on Sunday night, city police said.

The man reportedly crashed a motorcycle through a construction barricade that was closing off Hazelgreen Road near 49th Avenue shortly before 8:40 p.m., and struck the back of the excavator.

The man died at the scene of the crash, police said. There weren't any workers present in the construction zone at the time of the crash.

Police said that this was the ninth fatal crash in Salem this year. The rider's identity wasn't disclosed.

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