A woman has been killed in a motorbike crash on a country road near Malmesbury.
Emergency services were called to a two-vehicle road traffic collision on the B4014 in Long Newton, Gloucestershire, at around 5pm this evening (Wednesday).
The incident involved a motorcyclist and a car, with the biker – a woman – sustained significant injuries and CPR was carried out on the casualty.
Two air ambulances – Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC) and Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance (DSAA) – were deployed to the rural route just outside Wiltshire.
DSAA was stood down en route, as local ambulance crews and GWAAC medics pronounced the woman deceased.
Her next of kin has been informed and they are being supported by family liaison officers.
A full-scale forensic collision investigation is underway at the scene – an operation which takes around 12 hours.
The road, between Long Newton and Tetbury, is expected to remain closed until tomorrow morning (Thursday, 1 August).
Witnesses, or anyone with information or dashcam footage, should contact Gloucestershire Constabulary and quote log 418 of today (31 July).
In the past week, three other motorcyclists have lost their lives in crashes locally – including a man in Devizes, a man in Ashton Keynes and a woman in Cirencester.
