A man has died after the motorcycle he was riding crashed at Stratford in Cairns this afternoon.
Preliminary investigations indicate at around 12.30pm a motorcycle was travelling north on the Captain Cook Highway when it hit a guardrail of the Barron River Bridge and travelled down an embankment.
Emergency services attended and a 22-year-old Gordonvale man was pronounced deceased at the scene.
No other vehicles were involved in the crash.
The Forensic Crash Unit is investigating.
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